Employment Blogs
Should you fire that toxic employee?
Employers usually put up with toxic employees for too long. By the time they are fed up with the employee’s behavior or sees the damage this employee is inflicting on the business, a situation may have arisen that makes it more difficult to fire that employee.
Before you sign your severance agreement
You’ve been laid off, let go, canned, fired! Now what? Fortunately, you’ve been offered a severance package. On the one hand, you want to sign right away because you’re afraid you’ll lose it if you don’t. On the other hand, you’re wondering if you should ask for more. So what should you do?
Are you afraid one of your employees will go “postal”?
Each year, nearly two million U.S. workers report having been a victim of violence at work, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”). The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of annual workplace homicides at about 400.
How to handle mental illness in the workplace
Although mental illness is more accepted than it used to be, stigma still exists.
How and under what circumstances should you disclose your mental illness to your employer?
How should an employer handle this type of disclosure?
How much paid sick leave are NJ employees entitled to?
New Jersey’s Paid Sick Leave Act requires employers to provide one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours an employee works in New Jersey, up to 40 hours per benefit year.
How to conduct a workplace investigation that keeps you out of hot water
In this age of #MeToo, it is more vital than ever to conduct proper investigations into complaints of sexual and other types of harassment in your workplace. To be effective, investigations must be timely, thorough, confidential (to the extent practical and as...