Good news for employers: A new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling makes it much more difficult for temporary employees to join the same union as the organization’s permanent employees. …
You were annoyed last week when your company’s sales manager quit. He’d been in that job for 15 years and didn’t give any notice. But today, four of your best sales …
Issue: Legal problems that stem from inadvertent comments at the job-offer stage. Risk: Imprecise wording of an offer could lock you into an ‘implied contract’ with the employee. Action: …
Make sure all versions of your company policies, whether in employee handbooks, online policies or even offer letters, contain clear at-will employment statements. As this ruling shows, you won’t be …
Make sure your severance agreements don’t require employees to waive their rights to file a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Why? As opposed to a …
Issue: How to handle harassing behavior by your organization’s top dogs. Risk: Going easy on them will come back to haunt you; courts hold higher-ups to a higher standard than …
It’s easy to tell a mail clerk to knock off his harassing comments, but try telling the same thing to your CEO or other top dog. The truth is, though, that …
THE LAW. Today’s definition of trade secrets encompasses any information, technical or nontechnical, that your organization has reasonably protected and is valuable enough to give you an actual or potential …