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Security in the Workplace: A Review

The article gives a few suggestions about workplace security. Ensuring security is a difficult, complicated, and necessary procedure for all employers. Large and even medium-sized businesses may have a security department or may contract with a security company for evaluation, policies, and help. Small employers may want to call in...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, workplace, security

White papers 2003-05-19

Are You Prepared? ASSE Offers Crisis Checklist

Increasing workplace safety and security during a time of crisis is the purpose of The American Society of Safety Engineers' ASSE crisis checklist. ASSE emphasizes that it is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but believes the checklist can provide useful guidance. ASSE says that in addition to communicating to employees that...

Tags: HR Web Centre, emergency response, workplace, security

White papers 2002-12-30

Reason for Termination Roulette’ Will Likely Cost Employer

When an employer offers conflicting explanations regarding the reason an employee was terminated, it raises doubts as to, which of the reasons offered, if any, were legitimate. This goes double if the terminated employee is a member of a protected class. If you are serious about identifying the guilty party...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, workplace, harassment, termination

White papers 2002-12-03

Workplace Gossip and Workers’ Compensation

Must an employer pay workers’ comp claim based on psychiatric injuries suffered by an employee from workplace gossip regarding the employee’s personal life? Workers’ compensation is regulated at the state level. Except for federal employees and certain maritime and railroad workers, there is no national system for compensating people injured...

Tags: Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, worker, compensation, workplace, benefit, insurance, job

White papers 2002-10-01

Employer's Policy on Use of Computers Saves the Day

In a case that illustrates the importance of having clear, written workplace policies, an employer convinced a California appellate court that it had the right to confiscate and inspect a computer that it had given to one of its employees to use for work-related purposes at home. Read the article...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, workplace, computer

White papers 2002-08-07

Can Applicants Be Rejected Because Workplace Threatens Them?

The case study answers the question Can an employer deny a worker a job because it is pretty sure that the job will be a serious danger to him? Or does a worker have the right to deliberately and knowingly assume that danger, in essence saying "I know the risks...

Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, Americans with Disabilities Act, worker, compensation, workplace, job

Case studies 2002-05-22

ASSE Urges Action on Violence Prevention

Like many employers, the American Society of Safety Engineers ASSE is noticing that those once sporadic episodes of workplace violence are becoming more regular. The Society is encouraging business owners to grab hold of the problem in a serious manner. Among top recommendations include–the establishment of a written workplace violence...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, workplace violence, workplace, violence, security

White papers 2002-03-15

Workplace is Not All Right for Fighting…

Saturday night might be all right for fighting so the song goes, but not the workplace. Connie Gray found out the hard way when she was fired from her job at Toshiba America Consumer Products, Inc. Toshiba for assaulting a co-worker. However, Gray sued Toshiba for gender discrimination, claiming that...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, workplace, Toshiba Corp., job

White papers 2002-02-20

Workplace Stress Getting to You? Check Out These Tips

Remember those resolutions you made not even a month ago about taking it easy and not letting job stress get you down? If you haven't been too successful on your own, here are some tips to help you stay calm under pressure. You may wish to share these with your...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR Web Centre, workplace, job

White papers 2001-01-22

Additional Resources

Bargaining matures.

Sep 16, 2002 (Benchmarking HR - ABIX via COMTEX) A report called "Agreement making in Australia under the Workplace Relations Act 2000 and 2001" has been released. It is available from the Department of Employment & Workplace Relations' web site. Tony Abbott, Australian...

Articles 2002-09-15

Automation Centre Inc - Workplace Management - Brief Article

Automation Centre Inc. has developed and released the new software package TrackerSuite for HR. The new software tool features five web-enabled applications that are designed to significantly reduce the time to perform routine HR management functions and to improve employee relations with better workflow and communications through company networks and...

Articles 2002-01-01