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Say your marketing director breaks his leg during an after-hours employee softball game against a crosstown company. Who’s responsible? You might be surprised.

If you want to understand the difference between legal and illegal DEI, here’s what illegal looks like.

Employers can require employees accused of violence at work to take a drug test. But what happens if the test reveals the presence of marijuana in the system of an employee whose use of medical marijuana is authorized by state law?

Under federal and some state laws, certain information must be posted on a bulletin board where all employees can see it. But that shouldn’t be the same slab of cork where employees are allowed to offer free kittens, sell cookies or tack up a lost glove.

Somewhere out there, there’s someone very unhappy that he either didn’t get the job he sought from you, or left on terms he didn’t get to dictate. Realizing there’s so little downside to suing an employer, he’ll soon identify one place he can cynically mine for loopholes that he and his lawyer can use to slam you. That place is your employee handbook.

Courts don’t like to second-guess employers for managing their businesses as best they see fit. But how (and how consistently) you change those rules can make a big difference in your exposure to legal liability.

According to a recent survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a record number of people are working more than one job. Here are some options if you want your employees to devote more productive hours to your enterprise.

It is widely assumed that the NLRB will not bring any cases alleging that a stay-or-pay provision is automatically invalid under the NLRA during this administration. Several other federal agencies have also expressed the view that these agreements are too restrictive, in that they bind employees to jobs they don’t want by threatening large financial penalties for those who quit.

Do you wear your seatbelt? If you do, you’re a lot less likely to be injured in a car accident. Diversity, equity and inclusion policies, according to guidance issued by 16 states, operate in much the same way—good DEI policies lessen the possibility of unlawful discrimination in the workplace.

The clock starts ticking when an employee files a complaint. Human resources professionals have a short window to build trust with the complaining employee and demonstrate that their concerns are being taken seriously. Keep these three tips in mind when facing a workplace investigation.