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I’d Like to Fire Them Both! (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)
When it comes to less-than-desired workplace productivity, you need to have a plan and process for tackling the tough stuff. Using the FOSA™ process gives you the tools to effectively leverage progressive discipline in everyday workplace situations.
Late Again? (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)
Deep in performance issues? Here's an example of the need to implement progressive discipline. Using the FOSA™ process, managers and supervisors have the tools to effectively tackle key workplace issues.
Legal Briefs™ Recruiting and Hiring: Avoiding Illegal Questions
Avoiding illegal questions during the interview process.
Legal Briefs™ Recruiting and Hiring: Conducting Legal Reference Checks
Conducting legal reference and background checks.
Legal Briefs™ Recruiting and Hiring: Describing the Job
The importance of using job-specific language and not exaggerating the benefits of a job during the recruiting and interviewing process
Legal Briefs™ Recruiting and Hiring: Promoting Diversity Legally
Dealing with members of a federally-protected status group during the recruiting and interviewing process.
Legal Briefs™ Recruiting and Hiring: Protected Classifications
The importance of avoiding reverse discrimination in the recruiting and hiring process.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Privacy: Managing Expectations of Privacy
Managing employees' expectations of privacy in the workplace.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Privacy: Obtaining Employee Consent
How to be sensitive to an employee's expectation of privacy; the obligation of a manager to inform employees about re-entry
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Privacy: Privacy in Cyberspace
The internet and social media have created new areas of concern for managers. You might wonder, how can privacy law even be an issue for something that is so public? Well, the answer is, there are at least two kinds of privacy. One is where we have to keep confidential information… confidential. But the other is where an employer is not allowed to consider an employee’s private life, even if that life is very public.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Privacy: Protecting Confidentiality of Employee Records
You have a responsibility to safeguard employee records by ensuring that confidential information is kept in appropriate confidential files, preferably in a locked cabinet or office. Neglecting to take action to correct filing problems could open your organization up to a lawsuit.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: An Employee with a Temper
Dealing with hot tempers that could potentially lead to workplace violence.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: Dealing with an ADA-Protected Employee
Responding to unprofessional or violent behavior when dealing with an ADA-protected employee.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: Employee Who Threatens an Outsider
Discusses how an employee who makes threats toward persons who do not work for their organization can still impact the organization's susceptibility to hostile work environment issues and other lawsuits.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: Investigating Rumors of Threats
The importance of investigating rumors of threats regardless of who is involved.
Legal Briefs™ Workplace Violence: Pre-Employment Screening
Obtaining permissions for pre-employment screening
No Mistakes! (from FOSA™ Documenting Discipline)
Everybody makes mistakes. That's a true statement. But the expectation should be that we get all the work done and that it's 100% accurate. This video walks through setting accuracy/work expectations.
Recognizing & Stopping Harassment (from Legal Briefs™ Harassment & Discrimination)
When it comes to preventing workplace harassment and discrimination, you need to recognize it... and quickly. This video outlines how to recognize and stop both.
Recruiting & Hiring (from It's the Law™)
When it comes to recruiting and hiring, there's a lot you need to know as a manager - unless of course you want to spend the next the next couple of years working with me to try to justify your actions to a jury. A variety of state, federal, and local laws impact how you recruit, hire, and promote people. The best way to ensure that everything is on the up and up is to make sure that every decision is based on the person's ability to do the job!
Substance Abuse: Appropriate Action
Dealing appropriately with unprofessional behavior caused by substance abuse.