Category Employee Handbook
Building Conflict Competence: Improve Conflict Resolution & Workplace Mediation
by Bryan Lane Berson, Esq. An organization should multiply individuals’ efforts. Personnel create goods and services, and customers transform them into revenues by purchasing them. Viewed as a supply-chain, departments within an organization are consumers of other departments’ products. Feuds, politics, and turf wars waste effort and distract personnel from serving customers and generating revenue. […]
Contractor Agreements and Accident Reports
by Bryan Lane Berson, Esq. Property owners hire many types of contractors (e.g., custodians, snow removers, repairmen), and their actions or negligence may cause accidents. Injured parties will likely sue property owners and the contractors. Thus, owners should insist that contractor agreements contain insurance and indemnification provisions. Owners should insist that before work begins, they […]
Preventing and Defending Against Premises Liability
by Bryan L. Berson, Esq. Property owners should try to prevent accidents and lawsuits. Proactively inspecting for dangerous conditions, repairing them, and implementing record keeping procedures can reduce legal fees and damage awards, slow increases of insurance premiums, and improve profitability. Most premises liability claims are negligence claims against property owners. A plaintiff must prove […]
Conducting Workplace Investigations
by Bryan Lane Berson, Esq. Managers should be capable of addressing accusations of employment discrimination and harassment. Prompt, competent investigations and remedial action – where warranted – can preempt a lawsuit or help prove that the organization acted responsibly. Once management has actual or constructive notice, it should investigate. Actual notice occurs when someone informs […]
Mitigating the Risk of Discrimination Lawsuits
by Bryan Lane Berson, Esq. For many years, the federal and state governments have had legislation with the stated goal of preventing employment discrimination. They created departments to investigate and prosecute allegations, which can be damaging – even if they are determined to be false. Regulations against discrimination are complex. Many are not intuitive. Employers […]
How Can an Employee Handbook Legally Protect and Improve Your Business?
by Bryan Lane Berson, Esq. Download PDF: Employee Handbooks “Point 1 – Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs.” – W. Edwards Deming Similar, to a quality manual, an employee handbook can improve employee relations and efficiency, […]
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