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What to Include in an Employee Handbook

Patriot Software

As your small business grows, you will need a strong employee handbook to set expectations for employees. Knowing what to include in an employee handbook can help you better enforce your business’s rules and policies. What should you include in an employee handbook? Tweak your handbook to make it your own.

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The Impact of Trust on Corporate Culture

Culture University

” Telling quite a different “trust” story is the online employee reviews from that same company: Upper management gets a pass as the underlings get the scrutiny. They instructed me to do things that were not inline with the company handbook. “Trust is very high as evidenced by our quarterly earnings.”

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3 Actionable Ways to Support Your LGBTQ+ Employees During Pride Month

Bonusly

Happy Pride Month—the sunniest, most colorful of months! ?? ?? ??. We’ve long been a fan of encouraging employees to bring their full selves to work, and celebrating it! This very much includes gender, sexuality, and other alternative lifestyles that don’t fit into our. heteronormative worldview. Let’s get started! Let’s get started!

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Huge $5M EEOC settlement spotlights an enforcement priority that you may be overlooking

The Employer Handbook

In late December of 2012, the EEOC approved its Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2013-2016. This priority entails targeting disparate pay, job segregation, harassment, trafficking and discriminatory policies affecting vulnerable workers who may be unaware of their rights under the equal employment laws, or reluctant or unable to exercise them.

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Denying an employee’s attempt to rescind her resignation may be…retaliation?!?!

The Employer Handbook

She offered her resignation in June of 2012, but before finishing her employment, she testified against the Executive Director, Wayne Thibodeaux, claiming sexual harassment. What should you do when an alleged victim of sexual harassment wants to resign? According to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Porter v.

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And here are 3.5 million more reasons not to enforce a 100%-healed ADA policy

The Employer Handbook

Some folks just don’t learn. On a completely unrelated note, I was thinking about blogging about whether a victim of egregious sexual harassment could resort to self-help by effecting a citizen’s arrest of the harasser. Like a Nevada employer that just settled with the U.S. I’d love to hear from you.

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The Devastating Result of a Single Word

HR Daily Advisor

A car wash company provided its employees with a handbook setting forth its employment policies. The handbook was written in both English and Spanish, it required arbitration of employment disputes, and it denied an employee’s right to bring an action under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). A Nice Clean Job.