Time and again, the news headlines are splashed with big-name companies that have been hit with a discrimination lawsuit. This time, the unlucky business was Walgreens. Regardless of the outcome, small employers can draw many lessons for the Walgreen’s case. Risky Dismissal An 18-year-old diabetic employee of Walgreens was at work one day in September 2008, [...]
Disruptive employees impact the dynamics and interfere with the overall productivity of the work environment. Part of the managerial process consists of dealing with difficult employees. Supervising can be challenging at times, but careful planning and implementation of effective strategies for dealing with difficult employees can facilitate a positive, constructive and productive work environment. Hesitation [...]
Everyone suffers when there is a difficult employee in the workplace. An astute manager can recognize difficult employees, determine whether their behavior can be changed and whether or not they should be terminated. How to recognize a difficult employee. A manager must be able to recognize the behavior of a difficult employee. Difficult employees [...]
In our previous post (Double Jeopardy: The New Risks of Employing Undocumented Workers), we discussed the risks employers face by employing undocumented workers. In our current post, we hear directly from one of CPEhr’s Human Resources Specialists on what employers can do to avoid problems, and how an HR firm such as CPEhr can assist [...]
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis recently stated that all migrant workers, regardless of their legal status, will be offered the full protections of U.S. workplace laws. Solis went so far to state that foreign workers need to know their legal rights under US employment law so they can effectively lodge complaints against their employers, without the [...]
Orange County Assemblyman Jose Solorio, D-Santa Ana, California, recently submitted a bill to the California legislature that, if passed, would lead to California employers paying an additional $210 million in workers’ compensation benefits for temporary disabilities. This estimate is according to an analysis from the state Senate Appropriations Committee. Under current California law, an injured [...]