February 10, 2014
February 10, 2014
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Take time to evaluate the need for the position whether it’s a newly created position or a replacement. Align the need to the business purpose. If a job description exists, review and revise it. Know and incorporate the skills, aptitudes, and work style of the best performers in the position or a similar position. Refine the purpose statement to include key words designed to be optimized in search engines. Identify the functions critical to the position and describe the level of authority. The qualifications must be relevant, tied back to the essential functions and objective, such as two or more […]
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January 6, 2014
January 6, 2014
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The majority of employers in the United States do not have a published Social Media Policy. Social media is complicated, which is precisely why employers need to have a set of social media policies to establish boundaries and help employees navigate the systems. Policies and procedures need to work together. Social media is intertwined as another method of communication. Employers need to review all their policies to see if and where social media considerations need to be made and published. In the Debord v. Mercy Health System of Kansas, Inc. Nov, 2013 case, Sara Debord claimed she was retaliated against […]
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October 31, 2013
October 31, 2013
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The purpose of the Women’s Bureau was to establish policies to promote the welfare of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities. The Bureau was established by the Department of Labor in 1920, the year women won the right to vote and comprised 21% of the gainfully employed in this country. It grew out of an agency named Women in Industry Service which investigated the readjustment women were having after World War I. Like the Women in Industry Service, the Women’s Bureau investigated working conditions and industries accepting female employees. Subsequent reports by this […]
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July 23, 2013
July 23, 2013
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The risk of vicarious liability for harassment and hostile work environment looms a little less large as a result of a recent Supreme Court decision. Vance vs. Ball State University narrowed the definition of “supervisor.” Employers should not jump to the conclusion that only supervisors can cause liability in harassment or discrimination cases. Employers have the duty to provide a healthy and respectful work environment. The Supreme Court found Faragher v. Boca Raton and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth instructive landmark sexual harassment cases. These cases established the need for employers to demonstrate a well- communicated policy and complaint procedure, […]
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