Employee Relations

Employee Relations Case Management as a “new normal” HR Tool

By |2020-08-06T22:06:18+00:00August 6, 2020|

As business owners and HR professionals struggle to determine the new normal for their company and employees, we will collectively be leaning toward more automation like employee relations case management tools and online resources to get our day-to-day work done. Many, or even most, companies have implemented some form [READ MORE ...]

Employee Complaints: Employees Want To Be Heard. What’s Your Plan?

By |2020-08-27T22:08:14+00:00June 10, 2020|

Race, age and sex discrimination • Wrongful termination • Retaliation • ADA accommodation violation • OSHA violations These are just a few of the employee complaints that are increasing due to actions employers have and are taking since the COVID-19 Pandemic began. Let’s face it, we had to act [READ MORE ...]

Balancing Empathy and Accountability for Remote Workers at Home

By |2020-11-06T23:44:11+00:00April 21, 2020|

Written by Hannah Kirkland Maintaining a supportive environment while still encouraging employees to be productive is a tough balancing act. Requiring employees to work from home with family staying home as well, adds a new element to the balancing act. However, there are a handful of ways that you [READ MORE ...]

Can’t We Have Consistency, Compliance AND Compassion?

By |2019-08-08T20:01:18+00:00December 4, 2018|

An article posted yesterday in the SHRM HR Daily Newsletter, took a stand that in HR matters,  “Consistency Might Not Be Worth the Cost.” Although I understand that no two situations are exactly the same, and careful consideration of all the factors should drive reasonable outcomes, taking out the [READ MORE ...]

The 5 Best Reasons to Conduct HR Investigations May Surprise You

By |2018-05-14T15:16:48+00:00May 14, 2018|

If you haven’t already read “The 5 Worst Reasons for Not Conducting HR Investigations”, you may want to start there. Sure, it’s fun to get a chuckle over other people’s excuses, until we realize how often investigations are being avoided. But investigations don’t have to be scary, chaotic or [READ MORE ...]

Will Your Investigator Spill The Beans? A Lesson From The White House.

By |2017-04-19T09:28:10+00:00April 19, 2017|

Whether it’s your VP of HR, a department manager or an outside investigator, can you be sure your workplace investigator won’t jeopardize the investigation by sharing too much information? We all believe that our people know better than to share the details of an investigation with anyone who does [READ MORE ...]

5 Common Misnomers Re: Employer Retaliation

By |2020-11-07T00:08:26+00:00April 3, 2017|

We all know that the laws enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) make it illegal to fire, demote, harass, or otherwise retaliate against either job applicants or employees based upon the individual doing any of the following: filing a charge of discrimination, complaining to their employer about discrimination on the job, or [READ MORE ...]

Will There Be Over 90,000 Discrimination Charges Filed In 2017?

By |2017-02-22T18:08:57+00:00February 22, 2017|

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released the 2016 statistics for discrimination and harassment cases filed for the year, showing an increase for the second consecutive year. Discrimination charges were filed in 91,503 cases (29% being sex based claims).  The interesting point here is that the agency [READ MORE ...]

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