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How to Deal with Difficult Employees? Don’t Hire Them
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady The best way to deal with difficult employees is to avoid hiring them, advises attorney Dan Forman. BLR® founder and CEO Bob Brady says that while Forman is half-joking, he makes the serious point that difficult employees usually start out that way. They do not become different people […]
Timing Is Everything: Returning Employees to Work After FMLA Leave
By Mika Shadid Tucker, JD You must carefully consider the timing when you execute certain employment decisions that affect an employee who recently exercised her FMLA leave rights. Implementing a previously contemplated adverse employment action isn’t discrimination as long as the FMLA leave wasn’t a motivating factor.
Employee who talks about settlement gets less
By Brian P. Smeenk It’s common practice across Canada, when settling a discrimination or wrongful termination claim, to agree that the deal will remain confidential. What can an employer do if employees fail to honor that agreement? What if they blab about the settlement to their coworkers?
Social Media: NLRB Says Employees’ Job Complaints on Facebook Are Protected
An employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by firing five employees who complained on Facebook — off-hours — about their jobs, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held. So the employer must do penance by rehiring them and making them whole for any loss of earnings and other […]
Hire the Right Employee with Job Candidate Assessments
Companies have been using self-assessments and personality tests for years. But the rate of hiring failures is still as high as ever. In this 90-second video, you’ll learn about a candidate assessment tool that can help guarantee that a job candidate is the best fit for your organization.
Employers Can Stretch Waiting Periods beyond 90 Days Using HHS’s 30-day Orientation Period
Employers now can get an extra 30 days on top of the 90 days by which employers must have offered health coverage to eligible workers, under new final rules on orientation periods issued by the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury. The final rules, published on June 25 in the Federal […]
Hire the Best People You Ever Worked With (Part 2)
How do you train supervisors to recruit the best people (and do all the other things like appraisal and discipline and dealing with change and reducing turnover)? Here are some hiring tips, and an introduction to a 10-in-1 training program that educates supervisors and managers in all the basic HR skills. In the last Advisor, […]
Oklahoma Employees May Have Misconceptions About New ‘Open Carry’ Law
by Charlie Plumb Effective November 1, 2012, Oklahoma handgun owners will be permitted to carry their firearms more freely than before. Yet contrary to some popular belief, the state’s new “open carry” bill (SB 1733) does have limitations. Though some employees may believe they now will have the right to carry guns while at work, […]
Sex Discrimination: Manager Who Refused to Fire Female Employee Who Male Boss Found Unattractive Can Sue for Retaliation; Avoiding Trouble
A new California appellate court ruling underscores how you can wind up in legal hot water if you terminate an employee for refusing to carry out a discriminatory order. Here’s what happened.