Issue: Various new technologies allow disabled people to be productive at work. Risk: Courts say employers must provide such adaptive technologies in line with their resources. Action: Here’s how …
If your organization is hit with an employee lawsuit, consider having your attorney check for a bankruptcy filing by the employee who sues you. If the lawsuit isn’t listed as an asset with …
When you or your hiring managers need to fill an open slot fast, it may be tempting to skip steps in the application process. But don’t do it. Follow the …
Using unstructured, “tell me about yourself” questions during job interviews not only opens you to discrimination claims, it often results in poor hires, says Mindy Chapman, national director of training for …
THE LAW. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) makes it illegal to discriminate in the work-place against people over age 40 on the basis of their age. The law …
Issue: Becoming more involved in a local college’s career programs, beyond attending job fairs and posting openings. Risk: Your organization can morph itself into an employer of choice for interns …
You can now simplify your online recruiting process by registering for an Internet address that ends in “.jobs.” The .jobs domain was approved earlier this year and SHRM announced that registration …
Issue: Your Web site’s “Career” page is the first (or only) experience that many potential applicants have with your organization. Risk: Blow this opportunity, as many do, and those star …
If your job-screening process includes personality testing, review that test now to see if it includes any questions that could be considered “medical inquiries” revealing a person’s mental disability. And check …
Q. We suspected an employee was using drugs, so we sent him to be tested. We told him he couldn’t work until the test came back in two days. The results were negative. What financial responsibility do we have? Do we owe him lost wages for those two days? —L.B., North Carolina