Written job descriptions can improve your company’s recruiting, hiring, compensation, performance evaluation, promotion, and training, and can help protect you from some types of discrimination claims. Written job descriptions determine all the functions of a particular job and establish which of those functions are essential to the job and which are nonessential, or extra. Ranging Read more →

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Maybe you worry, maybe you don’t when it comes to whether a decision to fire an employee will lead to a law suit that may create a significant cost to the organization. Improperly terminating an employee can definitely lead to costly litigation. Those within the organization who have hiring and firing authority may believe that Read more →

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OSHA’s updated recordkeeping rule expands the list of severe injuries that all employers must report to OSHA. Establishments located in states under Federal OSHA jurisdiction must begin to comply with the new requirements on January 1, 2015. Establishments located in states that operate their own safety and health programs should check with their state plan Read more →

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Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being signed into law, many health plans and issuers could remove adult children from their parents’ policies because of their age, whether or not they were a student or where they lived. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires plans and issuers that offer dependent coverage to make the Read more →

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It cannot be said enough; just how important it is to document, document, and document! When situations arise in the workplace that supervisors, managers or anyone with authority, feels could be a potential liability issue, they should keep careful and complete documentation of all the facts surrounding each situation. If it can be shown that Read more →

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