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2015 OSHA Reporting Requirements
On January 1st, a final rule from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will take effect that will change the 2015 OSHA reporting requirements for injury and illness. This new rule adds to the number of situations in which...
Monitoring Employees at Work
Once upon a time, monitoring employees at work consisted primarily of sprinkling around a few video cameras in the warehouse to detect inventory pilfering. Times have changed: today you can harness “behavioral modeling” software to try to assess employee...
Preventing Unemployment Claims
Employers are often surprised at how easily a former employee can establish a successful unemployment claim. With respect to unemployment claims, the largest misconception among employers is that terminating an employee for substandard performance will disqualify the...
Employees Speaking a Foreign Language at Work
Question: We have some employees who regularly converse in their native Spanish language. This creates an issue because other employees are worried they are being talked about but can’t understand it. How should we handle employees speaking a foreign language at work?...
