Our team of experts fields real-life, everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s issue: Managers making comments about their workplace on social networks. Q: We know that employees who post comments related to working conditions on Facebook or Twitter are […]
Posted on August 21st, 2012 by admin
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A staffer runs out of FMLA leave but hands in a doctor’s note saying she’ll be out indefinitely with a back injury. Her company fires her, and she sues, claiming FMLA interference and refusal to accommodate a disability. Who wins? Read the dramatized version of this real-life case and see if you can determine the […]
Posted on August 20th, 2012 by admin
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Everybody’s always saying how important it is to communicate regularly with employees, especially in the benefits area. So how come so few companies do it effectively? Given the combined pressures of health care reform, an unsettled economy, and an unhealthy and financially unstable workforce, HR pros are scrambling to keep people informed about ways to […]
Posted on August 18th, 2012 by admin
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It’s a fact: The health care reform law’s individual mandate penalty would cost companies far less than providing health insurance for employees. But cost can’t be the only factor companies use to decide whether to drop coverage when the mandate takes effect in 2014. Companies have until January to make a decision: offer healthcare coverage […]
Posted on August 17th, 2012 by admin
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“Japanese Cherry Blossom” sounds like a lovely perfume. But one employer’s refusal to provide a “fragrance-free” workplace from that scent caused a major disability kerfuffle — and, in court, an important ruling on telecommuting as a potential accommodation. Pamela Core worked at the Champaign County Department of Job and Family Services in Urbana, Ohio. Core […]
Posted on August 16th, 2012 by admin
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“Japanese Cherry Blossom” sounds like a lovely perfume. But one employer’s refusal to provide a “fragrance-free” workplace from that scent caused a major disability kerfuffle — and, in court, an important ruling on telecommuting as a potential accommodation. Pamela Core worked at the Champaign County Department of Job and Family Services in Urbana, Ohio. Core […]
Posted on August 16th, 2012 by admin
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Everyone knows sexual harassment harms its direct victims. But new research shows harassment — especially when it goes unpunished — can have a damaging ripple effect on all company employees, male and female. That’s the gist of a new study published in The Journal of Applied Psychology and written up on the Psycholawlogy blog. The […]
Posted on August 15th, 2012 by admin
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A Colorado automotive group fired a woman who had been part of a lawsuit alleging the company fostered a sexually hostile work environment. And guess what? She filed another EEOC complaint, and the company’s now looking at a $50,000 settlement. The company agreed to settle the hostile work environment suit, and Lucille Fancher — a […]
Posted on August 14th, 2012 by admin
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First it was your social media policies. Then it was your at-will doctrine. And now the National Labor Relations Board wants to stick its nose into your workplace investigations. That’s the outcome of a recent NLRB ruling, which declared that a medical facility violated labor law when an HR staffer asked an employee involved in […]
Posted on August 13th, 2012 by admin
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Ah, sweet irony. A former employee of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has the green light to go ahead with her lawsuit … claiming she was the victim of disability discrimination. Mary Bullock served as an administrative law judge for the EEOC from 1999 to 2007. She sued the agency for disability discrimination in 2006. […]
Posted on August 11th, 2012 by admin
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