Enhancing Employee Morale and Productivity with Workforce Competitions In the never-ending quest to promote worker morale on the job, employers are offering an expanding range of clearly creative outlets and opportunities to escape workplace stresses. A search around the web will reveal, for example: Inter-office Chess Competition: this U.K. insurance company holds seasonal team battles […]
When Employers May be Liable for “Causing” a Resignation As an employer, you might assume the company is immune from any wrongful termination claim if an employee quits on his or her own accord. However, a worker may still prove a business is responsible for wrongful “constructive discharge” even when he or she has deliberately […]
Employers’ Right-to-Appearance Policies Whether an employee’s visible tattoo or body piercing stems from a claimed sense of aesthetics, rebellion or “it seemed like a good idea at the time,” business has discretion to regulate appearance and thus may usually decline to hire, fail to promote or terminate that person on that basis alone. As long […]