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Discrimination / Harassment

How many kinds of harassment policies do we need?

07/01/2008
Q. We have a sexual harassment policy. Is that enough? …

Terminations: 6 steps to ensure firing won’t backfire

07/01/2008
In most states, workers are employed on an “at will” basis, meaning they can leave the company at any time. Conversely, employers typically retain the right to terminate workers at any time for any legal, nondiscriminatory reason. Courts continue to chip away at the at-will doctrine, providing less flexibility to employers. This has led to an increase in wrongful discharge lawsuits …

Demanding coffee may be gauche, but is it harassment?

07/01/2008
Maybe she was a bit of a drip, but one employee got in such a froth about her bosses’ demands for coffee service that she sued. Did she really have grounds to bring a harassment and retaliation lawsuit? Did her employer wind up in hot water?

HR Specialist Editors Bring You the Best from SHRM Chicago

06/24/2008
For a week each year, the Society for Human Resource Management’s Annual Conference becomes the center of the HR world. HR Specialist editors have joined 13,000 of our peers in Chicago this week for four days of professional development covering HR’s hottest topics and presented by the profession’s  leading experts. Here’s some of the best from the world’s biggest HR conference.

What managers need to know about age discrimination

06/18/2008
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Writing reviews: Steer clear of two common errors

06/17/2008
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Beware: Employees don’t have to meet EEOC deadline in race discrimination cases

06/17/2008
Georgia employers have long believed they were off the hook when employees failed to file EEOC discrimination complaints within 180 days of the alleged discrimination. But employees who charge race discrimination under a previously little-known post-Civil War discrimination law aren’t bound by the 180-day limit …

Time off for church TV?

06/17/2008
Grocery store cashier Kimberly Bloom asked for Sundays off work for religious reasons. Although the store had a voluntary shift-swap system so employees could trade days with co-workers, Bloom told her boss that religious convictions prohibited her from working Sundays—or from asking co-workers to work for her …

Insist all harassment allegations go to HR for review

06/12/2008
Nothing will cause trouble faster than a manager or supervisor who doesn’t report a subordinate’s alleged harassment. If no one reports the problem, it may resurface later—for example, after the employee has been discharged for valid reasons …

Michigan religious employers have ‘Ministerial exception’

06/12/2008
A Michigan appeals court has ruled that religious employers have the right to make some employment decisions based on a constitutional “ministerial exception.” Essentially, employees hired to carry out an institution’s religious mission can’t sue under civil discrimination laws …