Posts Tagged ‘employee policies’
EMBARRASSING, DISRUPTIVE AND EXPENSIVE TO RESOLVE
Harassment in the Workplace is Illegal Prevention is The Only Viable Solution Current regulations tighten trainer qualifications and impose heightened interactivity requirements, including questions that assess learning, skill-building activities and numerous hypothetical scenarios about harassment with follow-up discussion questions. We are offering an updated in-house, two-plus hour seminar, at your location, that will fulfill these […]
FINAL PAYCHECK
What California Employers Must Pay Upon Termination A worker recently asked whether his now-former employer should have included sick time and vacation time in his final paycheck. He wrote: “I’m no longer working for [the employer] and I thought I was going to get my paid time off with my last check such as … […]
AVOIDING WORKPLACE HELL
For Heaven’s Sake: Document, Document, Document! Lawyers are in sales, they are not in management. They don’t sell widgets to consumers of course. Rather, competing attorneys each “sell” his/her client’s construction of events and actions to juries and judges, with the most plausible version of such occurrences the winner. This firm defends employers daily on […]
SOCIAL MEDIA POLICIES IN THE WORKPLACE
How Far Can Employers Go to Curb Use by Employees? An employer’s ability to legitimately discipline or terminate workers who use Facebook, Twitter and other social media to tee-off on allegedly improper work conditions or practices is likely to remain a hotly contested issue for years to come. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is […]
IRS ANNOUNCES NEW STANDARD MILEAGE RATES
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced an increase in the optional standard mileage rate from 51 cents to 55.5 cents per mile for all business miles driven from July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. This is highest IRS standard rate since the latter part of 2008. www.irs.gov. Although the IRS typically updates its […]
EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY PARTY OPTIONAL IN CALIFORNIA
California’s Department of Labor Standards Enforcement website explains that a non-union employer has full discretion: a) to close the business on any holiday; b) to give employees the day off for any particular holiday; or c) to pay employees taking a holiday off. In this state, hours worked on holidays are not considered differently from […]
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL IN THE WORKPLACE
Balancing Worker Privacy with an Employer’s Rights to Protect Safety A worker intoxicated or under the influence of drugs on the job can not only be detrimental to productivity, but extremely dangerous to safety of the employee and those around him or her. Maintaining a comprehensive written drug and alcohol policy – covering testing, prevention, […]