Discipline / Investigations

Before discipline, what should we document?

11/14/2014

Q. What documentation is necessary before disciplining an employee?

Comcast bill dispute allegedly costs customer his job

11/14/2014

Philadelphia-based Comcast’s much maligned customer service has taken another hit. This time a California man claims a cable TV billing dispute caused him to lose his job with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Win discrimination, retaliation lawsuits with patience, careful documentation

11/13/2014

Simply put, documentation is what wins many lawsuits. That’s especially true when more than one supervisor has documented past problems.

Bullying: The workplace’s equal opportunity problem

10/22/2014

Twenty-eight percent of workers responding to a new CareerBuilder.com poll say they have felt bullied at work. For 19%, the abuse was so bad they quit their jobs because of it.

DOL: Baby Vision tried to silence workers, thwart probe

10/15/2014

The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a restraining order against BabyVision Inc. in Poughkeepsie after workers reported being threatened and intimidated by the company’s two owners.

Discipline when dashed romance affects work

10/14/2014

Bad relationships can affect employees in surprising ways. When a romance ends, anger and frustration at home can wind up infecting the workplace. You can discipline employees if blow-back from love gone wrong harms your business.

Focus on behavior when disciplining jerks

10/06/2014

Some employees behave in ways that create an unpleasant environment for their co-workers, subordinates or supervisors. There’s no reason to put up with bullies and other ill-behaved employees.

Feds: Harrisburg leasing firms dodged payroll taxes

09/05/2014

A federal grand jury has indicted three Harrisburg area men on tax evasion charges stemming from their operation of several worker leasing businesses. The U.S. Attorney alleges that the three men paid workers more than $7 million in wages from 2006 to 2012 but never withheld or paid federal income taxes.

Is that employee lying? Here’s what to look for

09/04/2014

That colleague looking you intently in the eye as he answers your questions may be fibbing. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, says these are common tip-offs that someone is lying.

6 steps for setting up an in-house dispute resolution system

08/20/2014

An alternative dispute-resolution program lets you identify and address problems while they’re still manageable and before they land in court. Here’s a six-step process for establishing an ADR program.