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18 Must-Have Onboarding Documents (+ Free Templates)

Analytics in HR

Failing to standardize your onboarding documents hurts new hires and your company. Begin by establishing a set of clear, well-organized onboarding documents to help your HR department obtain the info and contracts it needs and help your recruits confidently navigate their new role. Contents What are onboarding documents?

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Here’s how bad documentation can cost a company big bucks when a former employee sues

The Employer Handbook

Employment lawyers and human resources professionals regularly preach that managers must document employee performance issues as a best practice so that if/when that manager wants to terminate the employee, the company has the “receipts” to justify the decision. Suppose that the employee later sues for age discrimination.

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E-Verify Users Allowed to Electronically Inspect Form I-9 Documents

HRWatchdog

Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be releasing new, revised Form I-9 documents tomorrow, but that’s not the only change coming for employers. On July 25, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a new rule that provides an optional alternative procedure to inspect Form I-9 documents.

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How did a white man convince a jury to award him over $10M for race and gender discrimination?

The Employer Handbook

He had no record of any documented criticism or reasons for his termination. All told, even without direct evidence of discrimination, the jury concluded that the plaintiff’s race and gender motivated the defendant’s employment decision. All of this happened during Phase 2 of the D&I plan.

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Documentation and communication FTW! (Well, good enough.)

The Employer Handbook

The woman — we’ll call her “Plaintiff” as we usually do here — alleged race discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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First impressions of OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

These employees aren’t: Employees who don’t report to a workplace where other individuals are present. You can provide the CDC’s document Key Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines. Health care employers, which are also already subject to a separate ETS. Which employees are covered? Employees who work in the office are covered.

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Two different termination letters lead to one discrimination lawsuit and zero luck for the plaintiff

The Employer Handbook

The general rule in employment law is that an employer’s inconsistencies and contradictions breathe life into discrimination claims. The employee claimed that his manager created his termination documents “two days after [he] complained and after or on the same day” the decisionmaker learned of his complaint.