“I’ve been told that if I can get an employee to sign a severance agreement, they won’t be able to claim unemployment. Is this true?” The short answer to this question is no. Just like in the case of “pay in lieu of notice,” a severance agreement does not eliminate [...]
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How Private are Employee’s Personal Emails on Company Computers?
How Private are Employee’s Emails sent on Employer’s Computers? One of the more interesting battles being waged in American Courts today is whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal emails sent over the employer’s workplace computers. A recent California Appellate Court in, Holmes v. Petrovich Development Co., [...]SendGrid, Applebee’s & the NLRB: Oh My!
Last week, a story in the HR news caught my eye: SendGrid, a tech company, is feeling heat for firing a female employee because she tweeted a complaint about sexual jokes she overhead being made by two males. It appears she was at a PyCon conference and overhead the two [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What to Do? Employee Keeps Saying “No” to Going the Extra Mile
“How do I handle an employee that always says no to going the extra mile? She always says she has something personal like her kids or family that she has to ‘do something’ with. So no matter what I ask, it’s always no.” The answer to this question hinges on [...]
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With employment lawsuits at an all-time high, it’s more important than ever to know what you can and can’t fire someone for. First, let’s test your knowledge of legal reasons that you could terminate an employee for. Which of the following terminations is NOT legal? A. Joe fired for distributing [...]
Read the rest of this entry »When is Travel Time or Seminar Attendance Compensable?
Or “The Policy that 8 out of 10 Employers Get Wrong” For continuing education (CE) credits, seminars, conferences, or company trips, it’s critical that you remember two rules: 1. The “Butt in the Chair” rule – employers must pay for ALL hours employee’s are attending mandatory trainings or meetings, regardless [...]
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Or “Why is Documenting so Important?” As HR professionals, we hear a lot of excuses when it comes to why a personnel file is empty or has only vague or outdated notes about an employee’s performance problems. “I’m too busy to do paperwork.” “I didn’t want to hurt her feelings.” [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Behavioral Interview: An Employer’s Best Hiring Tool
Or “How to Find and Hire the Right Employees Every Time” A great hiring tool that all medical and dental office managers and doctors should have in their arsenal is the “behavioral interview.” What is a behavioral interview, you may ask? To get a better understanding of what a behavior-based [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Layoff Aftermath: Keeping Your Remaining Team Together
Or “How to Cope with the Aftereffects of a Layoff” It’s an unfortunate truth that, as employers or office managers in the medical or dental field, one day we may have to layoff one or more of our employees due to financial hardship. We hate to do it, but we [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Purchasing a Practice – Transitioning Employees Before, During and After
Thank you for visiting CEDR Solutions. This page was created to be a supplemental reference to CEDR’s popular “Strategies in Transitioning Employees in a Practice Purchase” article that made it’s first appearance in The Profitable Dentist’s Winter 2011 issue. (You can find the full article here.) Below you will find [...]
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