Category Archives: Employment Law
Respect for your customers will ensure their faith and loyalty to you and your business over the long run. Candidly, many studies have shown that is up to nine times more difficult to attract a new customer than it is to retain an existing one. Accordingly, it is critical to keep your customers happy—-a matter that would appear at first blush to be common sense. But do we keep this in the forefront of our minds as we go through our everyday business?
Join Bill and Rick to discuss the techniques that are invaluable when dealing with customer related problems.
Some employers discipline their employees by docking their pay or putting them on unpaid suspension for violating workplace rules. However, such a policy can create big problems if the employee whose pay is reduced is exempt from such suspensions because he or she is paid on a salary basis and generally exercises a certain degree of responsibility and discretion in doing the job. In this show, Bill and Rick discuss when salary deductions are applicable and how unpaid suspension exceptions apply.
Even the most conscientious employer occasionally needs help from a lawyer. Although you can handle some employment matters on your own, a great many issues are particularly tricky and require legal expertise. Employment law can change rapidly. Courts and government agencies issue new opinions interpreting these laws every day, sometimes completely overturning what everyone thought the law meant. When you also factor in that lawsuits brought by former employees can end in huge damages awards against an employer, it’s easy to see why you should seek legal advice when you get in over your head. Join Bill and Rick to learn when and why you need a business employment lawyer on your side.
It is never pleasant being sued, but armed with the right information and good help, you can get through the process. In this show, Bill and Rick give you some preliminary information that you might find helpful if you or your company is sued in California. The goal is to make the process as pain free as possible. After all, to a great extent, knowledge is power.
Do you know how to implement the proper classification of your employees? Are you making sure that your supervisors are receiving proper training before dealing with employee issues? Are you aware of how vacation policies and overtime are supposed to be utilized and what the law requires should it become necessary to terminate an employee? In this show, Bill and Rick discuss these and many more issues which have been a “popular” source of lawsuits that otherwise could have been avoided. Learn how you can help your business stay off the courthouse steps, resulting in both a safer and more productive workplace for your business.
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As your business grows and you decide to accept new employees, it becomes ever so crucial for both employees and employers to understand how to avoid, handle, and even to pursue or defend claims of discrimination and/or retaliation in the workplace. In this show, Bill and Rick explore the relationship between employer and employee and how specifically claims are to be addressed under both State and Federal law if they do arise, and what can and should be done prior to the onset of litigation.
Websites:
Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) http://dfeh.ca.gov
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) http://eeoc.gov
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Jack Aubuchon – Mission Coast Insurance Services
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Bill and Rick explore employer-employee concerns over the implementation of drug testing and when physical exams are required in the workplace. Learn when and how they are proper in terms of being both statutorily compliant and constitutionally allowed. The interaction between the imposition of exams and testing with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California privacy rights is explored in conjunction with the proper procedures required to allow testing and exams to take place.
