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Yesterday, we looked at a case involving an injured employee who received a 100 percent total permanent disability rating in a workers’ compensation proceeding. Is the employer allowed to refuse his request to return to work?
One of your employees is injured on the job and receives a 100 percent total permanent disability rating in a workers’ compensation proceeding. If he asks to return to work, can you turn him away without running afoul of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)?
Ridiculous as it sounds, “they never told me” is a standard defense in employment lawsuits. It plays to the jury’s sense of fairness, and it plays pretty well.
You should regularly revise and modify your employment policies and employee handbooks as the law changes and as your operational needs dictate. Once you make policy changes, however, should you communicate them to your employees? If so, how?
Often, the first document a new employee reads is the company handbook. A handbook serves many purposes, among them introducing the employer’s culture, communicating important policies, and setting employee expectations. If approached thoughtfully, a handbook is also a key tool for minimizing exposure to litigation.
Rest and meal breaks in California aren’t just a nice-to-have, they’re legally mandated, all the way down to how frequently rest breaks must be given over the course of a workday. In a CER webinar titled “Meal & Rest Breaks in California: Long-Awaited Brinker Decision Is Finally Here; What It Means for You,” Marc L. […]
Many employers are unclear on whether employees who are injured while traveling from home to work, or vice versa, are entitled to workers’ comp benefits.
Under the Labor Code, an injured employee is entitled to workers’ comp when he or she sustains an injury or illness while acting within the course of his or her employment, or while performing service incidental to his or her employment.
Calculation of overtime in California differs from other states in regard to what hours count toward the total hours worked in the week, and that’s just the beginning. Even the best HR professionals can find the topic of paying overtime in California perplexing.
In Behind the Executive Door: Unexpected Lessons for Managing Your Boss and Your Career, author and executive coach Dr. Karol Wasylyshyn advises managers how to deal with the three types of bosses—Remarkable, Toxic, and Perilous.