Many laws have changed — If you haven’t updated your employee handbook within the past year – it may be out of date. As the laws and your policies and procedures change, your handbook needs to reflect those changes. With an up to date employee handbook an employer is able to clearly define the policies, [...]
Be careful asking inappropriate – or the wrong questions during an employment interview
December 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Employers can inadvertently create potential legal problems by asking the wrong questions – with the best of intentions. Remember, it’s the impact you may have, and not your intentions, that can get you, as an interviewer, in trouble. Anyone interviewing applicants should have a refresher about which questions are legally appropriate and which are not, [...]
Are You Using Outdated or No job descriptions?
January 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has made it nearly mandatory to have appropriately written job descriptions. This should be the very first step in a proper hiring process. Job descriptions should detail the essential duties, responsibilities and expectations of the position, and be written in a fashion which clearly describes the physical tasks required [...]
Are you conducting background checks on your prospective employees?
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A bad hire can be one of the most damaging events that can happen to a company. And a bad hire can happen with the best of intentions. Conducting reference checks, a criminal background check and verifying and validating information provided to you by a prospective employee can potentially save you immensely by avoiding productivity [...]
Be sure you are properly paying overtime to non-exempt employees
January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Be careful to properly draw the line between “exempt” employees and “non-exempt” (those entitled to receive overtime pay). Paying employees a salary isn’t enough to avoid overtime. Unless employees are exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by definition, you must pay them 1.5 times their regular hourly wage for all [...]