Make “zero-tolerance for harassment and discrimination” a business priority. Your written policy should be clear, fair, enforced, and distributed to all employees. Train your employees how to follow it and report incidents, and your supervisors on how to respond to reported incidents and enforce it. Having sound policies and procedures in place for employees to […]
Educate your employees on sexual and other forms of workplace harassment and discrimination
January 14, 2012 by Fred Holloway
Filed Under: Compliance, Documentation, HR Update Tagged With: Employment, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Harassment, Law, Sexual, Sexual harassment, Violence and Abuse
Be sure you are properly paying overtime to non-exempt employees
January 10, 2012 by Fred Holloway
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series 10.5 COMMON EMPLOYMENT-RELATED MISTAKES - And how to avoid them
Be careful to properly draw the line between “exempt” employees and “non-exempt” (those entitled to receive overtime pay). Paying employees a salary isn’t enough to avoid overtime. Unless employees are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by definition, you must pay them 1.5 times their regular hourly wage for all […]
Filed Under: Compliance, HR Update Tagged With: Employment, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, Independent contractor, Overtime, United States
Are you conducting background checks on your prospective employees?
January 5, 2012 by Fred Holloway
This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series 10.5 COMMON EMPLOYMENT-RELATED MISTAKES - And how to avoid them
A bad hire can be one of the most damaging events that can happen to a company. And a bad hire can happen with the best of intentions. Conducting reference checks, a criminal background check and verifying and validating information provided to you by a prospective employee can potentially save you immensely by avoiding productivity […]
Filed Under: Documentation, HR Update Tagged With: Background check, Business, Drug test, Employment, Negligence in employment
Be careful asking inappropriate – or the wrong questions during an employment interview
December 31, 2011 by Fred Holloway
This entry is part 2 of 9 in the series 10.5 COMMON EMPLOYMENT-RELATED MISTAKES - And how to avoid them
Employers can inadvertently create potential legal problems by asking the wrong questions – with the best of intentions. Remember, it’s the impact you may have, and not your intentions, that can get you, as an interviewer, in trouble. Anyone interviewing applicants should have a refresher about which questions are legally appropriate and which are not, […]
Filed Under: Compliance, Documentation, HR Update Tagged With: Ask an Expert, Employment, Interview, Job interview
Do you have an outdated — or no employee handbook?
December 30, 2011 by Fred Holloway
This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series 10.5 COMMON EMPLOYMENT-RELATED MISTAKES - And how to avoid them
Many laws have changed — If you haven’t updated your employee handbook within the past year – it may be out of date. As the laws and your policies and procedures change, your handbook needs to reflect those changes. With an up to date employee handbook an employer is able to clearly define the policies, […]
Filed Under: Compliance, HR Update Tagged With: Employee handbook, Employee Relations, Employment, Human resources, Policy
