Do any employees at your company play radio programs by shock jocks such as Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge, or Opie and Anthony? If so, it could create a problem.
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Does an obviously disabled employee need to ask for accommodation before the employer’s duty to accommodate kicks in?
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Tags: accommodation, ADA, disability
Imagine this: An employee makes a crucial error, one that either costs the company a lot of money or even puts another person’s life in jeopardy. The company fires the employee, only to have an arbitrator reinstate the worker.
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Tags: arbitration, firing, police
A federal court has ruled that a city did not violate the Constitutional rights of an employee who received a verbal reprimand for having an affair.
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Tags: affair, court, discipline, fired
HR Blunders has already written about how badmouthing a former employee can get a company in trouble. The opposite — giving a glowing recommendation that glosses over serious problems — can cost companies millions, as a recent court case from Louisiana shows.
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Tags: court, drug use, recommendation, referral
Does your workplace dress code address personal features such as facial hair, makeup, tattoos and piercings? Whether such policies are discriminatory continues to be an issue, as the city of Houston is finding out.
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Tags: appearance, beards, discrimination, dress code, lawsuit
Once upon a time, snooping on co-workers consisted of listening in on conversations, in person or on the phone, or intercepting written documents. Now, in the Internet age, you can add opening others’ e-mail messages to the list.
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What happens when one employee assaults another - verbally? It’s tricky for employees to win cases alleging hostile workplace environments when no form of discrimination is involved. But that might be changing.
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Tags: discrimination, lawsuit, workplace bullying
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But what about employees’ or applicants’ social networking Web pages? With the popularity of Facebook and MySpace, the intersection of workers’ private and workplace lives is a tricky place to be for many HR pros and hiring managers.
Tags: applicants, Facebook, MySpace, social networking
As long as your company is consistent, you can give benefits to whomever you want, right? A recent court ruling took that decision away from public employers in one state.
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Tags: benefits, court decision, domestic partner
