Goodbye Cake or Just Plain Goodbye?
Maybe you’re going to a competitor or maybe the boss is annoyed you’re leaving. Or maybe the company doesn’t want you hanging around reminding everyone you’re heading to something bigger and better. Whatever the reason, the company can send you out the door with nary a penny more than what you had earned up to that point with one exception — if you have a contract.
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Human Capital Management
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Sexual Harassment Liability, Seven Steps to Avoid
The United States Supreme Courts landmark 1998 decision makes clear that employers preventive and remedial actions are crucial to the question of liability,” says business-training expert Myron Curry, president of BusinessTrainingMedia.com. The decision says the purpose of sexual harassment laws is not for courts to intervene between employers and employees, but rather to encourage employers to themselves take steps to prevent sexual harassment and remedy it if it occurs.” Curry suggests that if employers take these seven simple actions, they can greatly reduce their organizations sexual harassment liability exposure.
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Human Capital Management
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Hiring Your Next Staff Member
The landscape for hiring staff has changed for employers. For many decades this industry has become dependent on an unauthorized workforce because there’s never been a consequence to it. Not only do you maintain a competitive workforce that way but also you maintain your competitive advantage. That has changed and that’s the big message.
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Human Capital Management
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Business Security still Plagued By Data Breaches
More than 1 million Massachusetts residents were hit by 807 data breach instances from Nov. 1, 2007, to Oct. 31 of this year, according to a report by the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, which monitors and enforces state data breach regulations. In the six weeks since, 59 additional breaches have been reported to the state.
You can read the full article linked below.
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Human Capital Management
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Sexual Harassment as Significant Workplace Problem As Indicated By EEOC Stats
One more workplace area violation you have to be aware. Sexual harassment laws are not gender specific and limited to females. The statistics show that although females continue to suffer the lion’s share, nearly 16% of all the claims filed were filed by males. The problems with sexual harassment in the workplace continue to cost companies and individuals substantial time, money and resources.
You can read the full article linked below.
http://www.tennesseeemploymentlawyerblog.com/2009/10/eeoc_statistics_show_sexual_ha.html
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Human Capital Management
1-888-884-3910
Reading Employee Email Is In The View Finders of Some Courts
Driving the change in how these cases are treated is a growing national concern about privacy issues in the age of the Internet, where acquiring someone else’s personal and financial information is easier than ever.
“Courts are more inclined to rule based on arguments presented to them that privacy issues need to be carefully considered,” said Katharine Parker, a lawyer at Proskauer Rose who specializes in employment issues.
Link to the full article below.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125859862658454923.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories
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Human Capital Management
1-888-884-3910
Know The Impact Of The Holidays On The Workplace
Typically considered a lighthearted time of year, the holidays can pose difficulty for those celebrating in a workplace setting. “A new economy and changing corporate culture has left people so terrified about holding onto their jobs that they often won’t partake in any kind of holiday festivities at all,” says Amy Epstein Feldman, co-author of “So Sue Me, Jackass!” “The unfortunate part is needlessly losing all that positive office spirit.”
You can read the full article linked below.
http://www.metro.us/us/article/2009/11/16/07/1729-82/index.xml
W. Garnett & Associates
Human Capital Management
1-888-884-3910
Managers and Supervisors Have a Responsibility to Resolve it or Report it
Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to the employee base. In the eyes of the law, the supervisor is the employer. If an employee informs their supervisor (or any manager) of a complaint around discrimination, harassment or retaliation, the courts consider this to be notice, and the clock (so to speak) starts ticking. Report to HR all reports of discrimination, harassment or retaliation, even if the employee requests the complaint be confidential, or asks that the complaint not be reported to HR, or if it appears as though the complaint is not genuine.
Read the full article linked below.
http://www.examiner.com/x-26967-SF-Workplace-Issues-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Resolve-it-or-report-it
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Human Capital Management
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What Impact Does Social Networking Have on The New Workplace
Does Social Networking have an impact on the workplace? You are on the phone with a colleague and suddenly you feel as though you are speaking to yourself. You hear in the background the clicking of a computer keyboard, and you realize that you’ve lost the other person’s attention. They are surfing the Internet or, more likely, checking their Facebook or Twitter account.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202435367912&pos=ataglance
W. Garnett & Associates
Human Capital Management
1-888-884-3910
How Does Unified Talent Development Drives Business Success?
Is there a link to Talent Development and business success? In fact, there is a lot more to it than that. SumTotal defines talent development as: the strengthening of employee productivity through automated and integrated learning, performance and compensation solutions to drive business results on a daily basis. Yet, what does that mean when applied to your business? Is it strictly about HR acting for the benefit of your workers? And is talent development the same as talent management?
Link to the full article below.
http://www.execdigital.co.uk/How-unified-talent-development-drives-business-success_37618.aspx
W. Garnett & Associates
Human Capital Management
1-888-884-3910
