Do you have effective sexual harassment policies and preventive procedures?

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Employers need to communicate a sexual harassment reporting policy and have in place effective preventive measures. Workplace contact between employees, co-workers, and their managers can lead to a variety of complaints.  Some of these complaints do not rise to the level of violations of law, but an expanding array of conduct in the workplace is falling under the jurisdiction of every increasing state and federal case law. It is becoming commonplace for a discharged employee to raise a variety of claims as a result of the termination.  Some of these claims may not have any merit but they cannot be 

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The Double Edge Sword of Employee Handbooks

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It may be time for employers to check their Employee Handbooks.  Recent case law has made updating handbooks a wise idea. For instance, a Pennsylvania court found that an Employee Handbook creates a contract and upheld a $187.6 million award against Wal-Mart for its failure to provide paid breaks to employees as detailed in its handbook. Many recent states courts decisions have found that and policies in Employee Handbooks create a contract that can alter the nature of employment relationships, even in at will employment states. You are probably thinking, “Maybe I should not have an Employee Handbook?”  That is 

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