When you must let your employees go, no matter the reason, do it legally and strategically.
When you must let your employees go, no matter the reason, do it legally and strategically.
Employers and supervisors need to be more vigilant than ever to eradicate all types of harassment from their workplace. Here are three ways you can actively discourage a hostile work environment and help your employees feel safe and thus be happier at work and more productive:
Do you feel verbally or physically threatened, intimidated, or humiliated at work? Maybe it’s a colleague who’s always angry at you, or a boss who makes inappropriate comments. You could be experiencing a hostile work environment. Ignoring the conduct may cause it to get worse.
Companies often reduce their workforce to prepare for a possible economic downturn, or because they are restructuring their business. Although employment in New Jersey and New York is at will – meaning employers can fire an employee for any reason, employers must be careful not to violate any nondiscrimination or whistleblower laws. Here are four
Did you know the Department of Labor can hit you with hefty penalties and interest simply for not keeping track of your hourly employees’ time, even if you pay them properly? Many of my clients don’t know what they don’t know about employment law issues in their company.
Employment in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among other states, is at will. This means you can be fired at any time without any reason or notice. However, there are some limitations to protect employees.
In this age of #MeToo, it is more vital than ever to conduct proper investigations into complaints of sexual and other types of harassment in your workplace. To be effective, investigations must be timely, thorough, confidential (to the extent practical and as permitted by law), and transparent. What constitutes a timely investigation? To be timely,
You’ve just received a charge from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC”) in the mail. Your former 59-year-old employee, whose job you eliminated last month while he was on disability leave, has filed a complaint with the EEOC against your company alleging age and disability discrimination and retaliation. What do you do?
Romantic love and work are not good bedfellows, despite what you’ve seen on “Mad Men,” “Boston Legal,” and “The Office.” For example, allowing your supervisors to date their subordinates may lead to an affair you would prefer not to remember.