November 1, 2013
Anyone watching the Sasquatch convention baseball playoffs this past month noticed that most of the Boston Red Sox players looked like they hadn’t shaved since Spring Training. The Sox rode their unkempt culture all the way to a World Series title. While some employers make take a liking to such beard bonding in the workplace, others demand a clean-shaven culture. So can your organization set a no-beard policy for its male employees? …
April 12, 2013
First impressions are important. But when it comes to preventing employment lawsuits, it’s typically the last impression that employees have at work that matters most. “This is why 90% of people come to our office. It’s the way they’re treated on the way out the door,” said noted plaintiffs’ attorney, Randy Freking, of Freking & Betz in Cincinnati, during last week’s LEAP conference.
As Freking puts it, a lot of juries seem to live by the motto of “If it seems unfair, there must be something there.” Here are the most common errors he sees employers making in the termiantion process …
