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Yesterday’s Advisor featured legal tips about probationary periods. Today, Hunter “Please Sue Me” Lott says, “Get rid of your probationary period.” Otherwise you risk negating your employees’ at-will status. Lott says that any “probationary period” or “introductory period” (or as one company calls it, “comfort time”) is a threat to the employer’s at-will status because […]
The U.S. district court in Minnesota recently heard a claim from an employee who was exposed to scenes containing nudity on the television in the employee lounge. The employee claims that these scenes were sexual harassment, does she have a claim?
The labor market is tightening and turnover is increasing, but banks are planning to grow employment, according to data from the Crowe Horwath LLP 2017 Bank Compensation and Benefits Survey. Crowe, a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm, conducts the annual survey, now in its 36th year. The survey, which compiled data from 375 banks, […]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made its decision on which two years of data it will collect for a newly required component of the annual EEO-1 report. And although the agency has set a September 30 deadline for submitting that data, it also is appealing the court ruling that requires employers to submit […]
Question: We have an employee who is currently on FMLA leave has a brain tumor. She has been cleared by her doctor to return to work part time. Can we ask the employee to sign a waiver in case anything happens to her while at work? Answer from the experts at HR.BLR.com:
Performance appraisals shouldn’t start and end with one annual meeting, yet this is a common mistake many employers make—a mistake that can leave employees blindsided and frustrated instead of empowered and productive.
There are different factors for businesses to succeed, one of which is by learning how to fully maximize your team members. To do this, you must be able to learn the importance of delegation.
Q Can a pregnant employee start their 12 workweeks of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave before delivery, and if so, will this shorten their amount of postpartum leave? Yes, if eligible, a pregnant employee may take their FMLA leave before the delivery of their child. For context, the FMLA is the federal law that […]
As HR, it goes without saying that you want the best for your company’s people.
Among the many legacies of COVID-19 will be the test of our endurance for spending time in front of screens. Remote workers are spending 29% more time in team meetings and 24% more time in one-on-one meetings than they were before the pandemic, according to a study from the calendar-assistant company Clockwise.