Jan 232012
New Chuck Krugel Presentation: Free 2/1/12 Video Webinar Limited to 23 People
To register go to problememployeesolutions.com or click on the image below & follow the instructions
2/1/12 How To Make Tough Decisions About Problem Employees
Jan 162012
Materials for My 1/18/12 Presentation @ Chicago’s City Hall for Dept. of Business Affairs
Here’s the handouts for my 1/18/12 Understanding Labor & Employment Law from a Business Perspective at Chicago’s City Hall. The first document is a 17-page overview (PDF) of labor & employment law & HR issues, including a discussion of independent contractor versus employee issues, overtime eligible versus overtime exempt issues, what can & shouldn’t be asked in the hiring process & unemployment compensation. The second document is a 10-slide PowerPoint containing points of emphasis & some of my opinions regarding the human capital market. Here’s the PowerPoint as a PDF.
Jan 032012
New Chuck Krugel Presentation @ Chicago’s City Hall 1/18/12
On 1/18/12 from 3PM–4:30PM, I’ll be doing my “umpteenth” presentation for Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs. As usual, my seminar will focus on understanding labor & employment law & human resources from a business’ perspective. This is at Chicago’s City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Department of Business Affairs, #801. If you’d like to register ahead of time, please contact Geralyn Catino @ 312-744-5504 or geralyn.catino@cityofchicago.org. Walk-ins are welcome too.
Soon, I’ll post my presentation handout & PowerPoint on this site. Handouts will also be available @ the presentation.
Dec 272011
This Website is #4 on the Best Labor & Employment Law Sites as Ranked by BestSitesNow.com
BestSitesNow.com ranks my website as the 4th best website in the Labor & Employment Law area. My site is the highest ranking law firm & nongovernmental or reference site in the field. This isn’t a “pay for play” site or designation.
According to DreamDolphin Media, the creators of BSN:
Every site on BestSitesNow.com was reviewed and approved by an Open Directory Project editor. You won’t find insignificant forum posts and article pages here, just complete sites. The other problem was that search results are sorted by relevancy. On BestSitesNow.com, the sites for each topic are sorted by traffic rankings. The most popular sites are typically the best sites. This site [BSN] is essentially an experimental “Web 2.0″ mashup of Open Directory Project data, Alexa traffic rankings and information gathered by our own spider bot, plus some manual data processing work. We hope you find BestSitesNow.com to be useful. It’s not perfect, but we think it’s useful more often than not and interesting nearly all of the time.
Thanks Dream Dolphin Media & BSN!
Dec 122011
Chuck Krugel Quoted in “Bad News Can Be Good For a Wrongful Termination Lawsuit-An employer may build a stronger defense against a problem employee by digging up more evidence of misconduct”
Thanks to Dawn Lomer of i-Sight Blog—News & Tools for Better Investigations for quoting me in her 11/22/11 article “Bad News Can Be Good For a Wrongful Termination Lawsuit-An employer may build a stronger defense against a problem employee by digging up more evidence of misconduct.” The article is accessible at i-Sight here. The full text is below.
Bad News Can Be Good For a Wrongful Termination Lawsuit
An employer may build a stronger defense against a problem employee by digging up more evidence of misconduct.
Ask employers to list their least favorite tasks and firing an employee is bound to be at the top. It’s difficult, awkward and stressful for everyone concerned. Replacing an employee is expensive, time-consuming and hurts productivity, and the possibility of a lawsuit for wrongful dismissal makes it even more worrisome. So it’s no wonder that employers are reluctant to terminate staff even in cases of blatant employee misconduct.
But hanging onto a problem employee is a bad idea, no matter how unpleasant it may be to let him or her go. In most cases, it’s better to remove a problem employee as quickly as possible. Keeping on bad employees is bad for morale, but equally important is the fact that the discovery of one termination-worthy incident may be only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, some employment attorneys feel that the discovery of one fireable offense could indicate that there are others.
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