Follow these guidelines for crafting rejection letters that won’t create legal liability.
Follow these guidelines for crafting rejection letters that won’t create legal liability.
Title VII makes it unlawful for an employer to deny a reasonable accommodation to an individual who wants to practice their religion by, for example, observing a religious holiday or taking time to pray, unless doing so will create an undue hardship.
Employers have the right to contest a former employee’s eligibility for unemployment benefits. Talk it over with your attorney before deciding to do so.
Front-line managers are the most important players in the performance-review and performance-management processes. They are in the best position to observe how employees do their jobs.
Managers set expectations, give guidance, measure performance in written reviews and set future expectations. By documenting expectations and offering feedback, managers can prevent legal claims or at least better position an employer to defend itself in court.
This training covers the basic framework of reviewing performance to help employees improve and minimize legal liability that can result from inconsistent review processes.
The EEOC has filed its first lawsuit alleging violations of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Don't make these same mistakes.
The Department of Labor has issued its AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework, a new tool designed to support the inclusive use of artificial intelligence in employers’ hiring technology and increase benefits to disabled job seekers.
If you’re ever subpoenaed to testify in a lawsuit against your organization, what you say and how you say it can be held against you.
Here’s a warning for employers that insist workers taking medical leave must be fully healed before returning to work.
Classifying workers as independent contractors instead of employees has advantages for employers. But if you make a classification mistake, it can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.