A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) does not necessarily have to be negative. A PIP should be designed with employee enhancement in mind, not as a way to weed the employee out. In the best of circumstances, a PIP exists to help an underperforming employee improve performance, and do his or her best for your company. By laying out clear guidelines, you give an employee a clear sense of what is expected and the room and direction necessary to improve.
Give meaningful feedback on employee performance -- without creating legal problems.
The educational requirements for OSHA's excavation and lead safety standards can be daunting for contractors. Two new online programs, Excavation Competent Person Training Program and Lead in Construction Program, offer state-of-the-art tools to help contactors fit training into their busy work schedules.
Begin by underscoring the fact that clothes in the workplace cannot be disruptive or reflect negatively on the company's image and service to customers.
Many unions and employee groups oppose computer monitoring, claiming it:
This sample safety policy is designed to help you create a formal safety policy for your company.
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On employment applications, at-will statements:
The way you look, dress and act is vitally important to your organization.
Organization safety standards require all employees to use seat belts and shoulder restraints (if available) whenever they operate a vehicle on organization bus
Explanation. An employer has the right to expect his or her employees to conform to a reasonable standard of conduct.
Most employees expect that holidays designated by their employer to be days off are paid days off.
Generally, yes, but not if the award would conflict with the requirements of immigration laws.
The Department of Labor (DOL) has noted that there is no problem with an employer providing extra holiday time to employees; for example, giving Christmas Eve a
You've heard that workers with disabilities can be employed at special minimum wages. Is this true?
Because laws forbidding polygraph testing generally do not cover pencil and paper honesty tests, there has been an increase in the use of honesty tests in recen
There is no maximum number of hours that most employees can work under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
There is no problem under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act if an employer decides to switch to longer pay periods, as for example from biweekly to monthly p
Employers must keep posted conspicuously in or about the workplace wherever minors are employed, a printed copy of Secs.
Each employer shall keep posted conspicuously in or about the premises at which a minor is employed, a printed copy of sections 10, 11, and 12 as furnished by t
Mining.— Anyone who violates maximum hours provisions affecting employees in mines, smelting, mills and plants will, upon conviction, be fined $25 to $500 (Sec.