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Employee Rights: Disability Discrimination
Always remember, you can ask people about their abilities, but you can't ask about their disabilities. This means that you can ask how an applicant plans to perform each function of the job, but you cannot ask whether the applicant has any disabilities that will prevent him or her from performing each function of the job.One way to ensure that you stay within the rules is to attach a detailed job ... [Read More]
Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Any person in a management position who uses or condones implicit or explicit sexual behavior to control, influence, or affect the career, pay, or job is engaging in sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in the workplace is against the law. An employer has a legal responsibility to provide a workplace free from sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination involving unwelcome... [Read More]
Are Noncompete Agreements Valid?
Companies often ask their employees to enter into broad noncompete agreements or employment contracts with broad noncompete provisions. The reason may be because they would like to keep exiting employees from working for a competitor firm. It may also be that you simply want to stipulate how soon an employee can start working for a similar company. Whatever reasons you might have for asking your e... [Read More]
Keep Hiring Legal
Managers, regardless of whether you run small businesses or big corporations, should have basic knowledge of the "legalities of hiring."These legalities do not apply to managers making a final hiring decision. It applies to all employers interviewing a candidate. You should know the legalities of hiring in the United States in general, and also those specific to your state. You should al... [Read More]
Family and Medical Leave for Military Family Members
The Defense Reauthorization Bill allows employees to take a leave covered under Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for what they describe as "any qualifying exigency" that would arise out of a family member's active duty or call to active duty. The new provisions included in the existing list of qualifying reasons for which employees can take FMLA leave because of the DRB are as f... [Read More]
Dealing with a Lawsuit
Everybody does not like to get sued. Not only your company gets subjected to the courts, you are also brought into the court of public opinion. If your office have received a notice that your organization is being sued, it is best to deal with it as soon as possible. Notify your insurance carriersSome insurance companies not only offer assurance after accidents, but also cover your cos... [Read More]
What Is Love Contract Policy?
Many career and relationship experts say that employees should avoid going into a romantic relationship with a co-worker. However, who are we to stop two employees from falling in love? But at the same time, relationships in the workplace can cause potential problems, especially when the romance is over.For instance, one of the partners on a former romantic work relationship would charge his or he... [Read More]
Monitoring Employee Internet Use
Many employers are now considering putting up measures to monitor how their employees use the Internet, and it has become a troubling topic. The question of the employees' right to privacy has been raised, while employers believe that such procedure protects their computers from becoming infected with malicious software as well as become a medium for employees to divulge trade secrets with competi... [Read More]
Internet Usage Monitoring in the Workplace
With the introduction of the Internet, many employers become wary that their employees may be using the technology for purposes other than work-related. Nowadays, it is possible for employers to track how their Internet usage of their employees. A survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management said that almost three-quarters of companies questioned monitor how their work... [Read More]
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Sexual harassment is an unwelcoming attention of sexual nature. It includes different behaviors from mild transgressions and annoyances to actual sexual abuse or assault. In the workplace, however, sexual harassment is more about power rather than sex.HistoryIn the United States, there were two versions on how the term "sexual harassment" became to being. One version da... [Read More]