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Workplace violence prevention: Practical steps employers can take

Business Management Daily

Employers can face liability for negligent hiring if an unperformed or ignored background check revealed a violent history. Employers who allow harassment or discrimination to occur against may create fertile ground for workplace violence. A sexual harasser, for example, may progress to sexual assault.

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Your Ultimate HR Compliance Checklist for 2024

Analytics in HR

HR compliance refers to a company’s policies, processes, and procedures that help ensure that work and employment practices adhere to applicable laws and regulations. HR compliance encompasses everything from creating and documenting policies and procedures to administrating and enforcing those policies. Since 2000, U.S.

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Estimated Time on HR: Employee Relations & Compliance Tasks

Stratus

When you are in the thick of developing a new initiative, responding to employees, handling tricky people situations, or researching applicable laws, you may wonder if you are spending too much time on each task. Write corrective action warning and review with employee, then document : 1 hour.

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Managing Employees’ Online Behavior

Affinity HR Group

Train these employees on proper communication skills and how to maximize the impact on the platforms. Ensure that they are regularly trained on non-discrimination and are up-to-date on acceptable and unacceptable language and imagery. Require employees to provide current user names and passwords to management and IT for monitoring.

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Employee handbooks: A guide to creating valuable policies for your small business

FingerCheck

Equal opportunity: Ensure everyone gets a fair shot, regardless of background, with an anti-discrimination policy. Equal opportunity: Ensure everyone gets a fair shot, regardless of background, with an anti-discrimination policy. Non-discrimination: Make it clear that discrimination and harassment are unacceptable, period.

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Employee handbooks: A guide to creating valuable policies for your small business

FingerCheck

Equal opportunity: Ensure everyone gets a fair shot, regardless of background, with an anti-discrimination policy. Equal opportunity: Ensure everyone gets a fair shot, regardless of background, with an anti-discrimination policy. Non-discrimination: Make it clear that discrimination and harassment are unacceptable, period.

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Understand, identify, and address nepotism at work

Business Management Daily

Hiring or providing preferential employment treatment to friends or others based on personal relationships may also be considered nepotism under some definitions, but it is typically referred to as cronyism rather than nepotism. There has been a lot of talk over the past year about nepotism and “nepo babies” in the entertainment industry.