Employment Law
On Wednesday, 8/17/16, 3pm - 4:30pm, I'll be discussing "Employee Policies, Handbooks & Agreements" at the Small Business Center at Chicago's City Hall, 8th Floor, Room 805. We'll be talking about whether a business needs a handbook & the whys, whens & whats of implementing policies. To register, please email BACPoutreach@cityofchicago.org or call 312.744.2086.
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Thanks to reporter Heather Huhman for extensively quoting me in her 12/10/14 Entrepreneur.com article "Is Your Office in Need of Guidelines for Wearables?" The article is here (my contributions are in blue). Thanks also to Mike Bankhead for quoting me in his 12/12/14 article "The Force Awakens II: HR in 2015" for people G2 Human [...]
Here's the materials from my May 2014 "Sink or Swim With Social Media: Legal Workplace Issues" presentation for Assurance University. It's a 56-slide PowerPoint analyzing court & regulatory agency rulings concerning who owns work-related accounts & content, & what employers can & should do to manager their employee & business' social media activities. Unfortunately, the [...]
In my practice, I see a lot of trends where the quantity of certain behaviors or issues seem to run in cycles. Lately, I've seen a lot of "creep" & "jerk" issues arise in businesses. This happens when a business has a very difficult employee who behaves like a creep & a jerk, yet their [...]
