12/13/2013
You might assume that firing an employee for breaking a safety rule would be “safe” from judicial criticism. But if you don’t punish all workers equally for violating the same rule, you may run into trouble if the employee can show that others outside his protected class weren’t punished as severely.
12/13/2013
Before your organization disciplines an employee, it’s always important to ask these questions: Have other employees violated the same policy? If so, what action did we take against that other employee? How similar are those two situations? One court recently said employers shouldn’t search for “identical” situations—“similar” is good enough.
