The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has made changes to the rules regarding severance agreements. Whether you’re an employer or an employee, learn how these changes affect you.
Severance agreement rules have changed
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How to prevent a hostile workplace
Employers and supervisors need to be more vigilant than ever to eradicate all types of harassment from their workplace. Here are three ways you can actively discourage a hostile work environment and help your employees feel safe and thus be happier at work and more productive:
Are you in a hostile work environment?
Do you feel verbally or physically threatened, intimidated, or humiliated at work? Maybe it’s a colleague who’s always angry at you, or a boss who makes inappropriate comments. You could be experiencing a hostile work environment. Ignoring the conduct may cause it to get worse.
WARNing to NJ employers planning layoffs
Here are three key changes to New Jersey’s version of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act that will impact how you plan and implement your layoffs:
Are you being sexually harassed at work?
Sexual harassment in the workplace is never okay and happens too often. No matter what form sexual harassment takes, it’s never acceptable, here are three strategies you can use to protect yourself and fight back.
Investigating sexual harassment claims
Sexual harassment claims can be challenging and costly to your business, which could force your business to permanently close it’s doors.
Worried you’ll be laid off?
If you’re like most people, the thought of losing your job can make you feel like your whole world is falling apart. Keep reading to learn three ways you can protect yourself.
How to fire an employee (the legal way)
Companies often reduce their workforce to prepare for a possible economic downturn, or because they are restructuring their business. Although employment in New Jersey and New York is at will – meaning employers can fire an employee for any reason, employers must be...
Monkeypox leading to more workplace harassment?
As if we didn’t have enough workplace issues to deal with, we now have a new virus: Monkeypox. The majority but not all of the reported Monkeypox cases have involved men who have been or are in close relationships with other men. Because of the virus’s link to gay and bisexual men, there may be an uptick in harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
Worried your employees will use cannabis at work now that it’s legal in NJ?
In New Jersey, an employee who uses cannabis outside of their workplace, may not be disciplined at work,