I bet your lawyer has never uttered those words to you (unless, of course, I am your lawyer). For today’s Friday’s Five, I wanted to remind readers about five free resources I offer. That’s right – they are absolutely free. Happy Friday.
1. Download the termination checklist
I’m a big proponent of checklists. Even if
Working with employers are various sizes, backgrounds, sophistication, and industries, I’ve seen a lot of confusion and simple misunderstandings about what constitutes employee discipline and how to properly document employee performance issues or discipline. This Friday’s Five addresses five common misunderstandings I’ve seen recently about employee discipline and documentation:
1. If it was not a
Join me for a seminar for a mid-year update on California employment law issues. Learn how to keep your company compliant with new developments in California. Topics will include:
Another Friday, another Friday’s Five. If you are new to the Employment Law Report, I write about a topic and include five items employers should understand on that topic every Friday. This Friday’s Five discusses the documents employers should consider providing to employees at the end of employment.
The documents include:
Friday’s 5 is here. This post covers five issues that commonly arise when dealing with employment 
contracts and non-competition/non-solicitation agreements. It is a very broad area to discuss, so, as always, this is a very general overview. However, employers and executives alike should have a basic understanding about the legalities and enforceability of such clauses
Today’s Friday’s Five focuses on five aspects of responding to employee’s complaints made on social media. Yelp has been in the news recently (Another ex-Yelp worker is calling the company out after being fired, CNNMoney; Yelp’s Tweet About Fired Employee Could Spell Legal Trouble, Inc.com [I was quoted in this article]), for
Terminations. It is not a subject you cover in management class, or any class for that reason. But yet the termination process is one of the more common business decisions that will receive the most scrutiny, and are probably the most legally challenged decisions in the workplace. In addition, terminations trigger immediate legal obligations that
Today’s Friday’s Five focuses on what steps one can take to become more proficient in operating under California’s complex employment legal structure.
Happy Friday! This Friday’s Five focuses on the termination process. Employers should develop a termination checklist to ensure all documents and contingencies are consistently covered during the process. Here are five pointers employers can use to start in developing their own checklist:
1. Final wages must be timely paid.
The employee’s wages must be paid
Gary Vaynerchuk discusses how he uses social media to engage with his 500 or so employees and addresses the risks on The Ask Gary Vee Show, episode 176 (video below). Gary made his career using social media, and continues to do so in running his digital media company, Vayner Media. So it does not