Employee Relations

Workplace Investigations: Gain Clarity as to Meaning

September 7, 2023Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Harassment/Discrimination, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Workplace Investigations

“It’s bullying,” “I’m being harassed,” or “this is creating a hostile work environment.” As a workplace investigator these are phrases that I hear on a daily basis from complainants and their colleagues, and even sometimes from the respondents acc... Read More..

Rethink Employee Confidentiality Clauses as Fed Agency Restricts Scope Nationwide

April 17, 2023Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Employment Agreements, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers

How do you keep your core business interests and the goings on at your organization confidential when it feels like those strictures are under attack from multiple government entities? It may be time for you to redefine your priorities with respec... Read More..

Workplace Investigations: Anticipate Cognitive Overload

September 7, 2023Employee Relations, Workplace Investigations, Workplace Training

Sometimes you just need to let things gel in your mind for a while. I came to this conclusion in my investigations... Read More..

Workplace Breastfeeding Laws Offer General Consistency with Local Nuance

February 14, 2023Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Employer Notice Requirements, Harassment/Discrimination, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Tri-State Employers, Wage and Hour Laws

Breastfeeding protections have gone mainstream. Through the magic of a budget spending bill, nursing employees in workplaces throughout the country now have legal protections that will afford them break time and access to spaces outside of toilet... Read More..

Workplace Investigations: What Is “Bullying”?

September 7, 2023Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Harassment/Discrimination, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Workplace Investigations

There is a slippery slope between what may be considered sub-optimal or bad management practices, “bullying,” and “harassment.” When behaviors prompt an employee complaint, workplace investigators need to evaluate where a supervisor’s conduct fal... Read More..

New York Employers Face Complementary Federal/State Restrictions on Confidentiality and Nondisparagement Clauses

January 3, 2023Employee Relations, Employer Notice Requirements, New York Employers

New York employers that include confidentiality or nondisparagement clauses in any agreement they enter into with an employee – including offer letters, employment agreements, restrictive covenant/noncompete agreements, severance agreements or set... Read More..

Is Pay Transparency Just Legislators Throwing Arrows at a Dartboard, Missing the Root Problem

December 8, 2022Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Wage and Hour Laws

What if all these new legislative initiatives at pay transparency are solving the wrong problem? Touted as a solution to pay inequity, a recent study lends much reason to question the viability of that approach. And from personal experience as a... Read More..

Sometimes We All Need a Little Help – and a Cooperative Dialogue with our Employer to Get Us There

November 25, 2022Employee Relations, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Sick and Safe Leave, Tri-State Employers

I have been thinking a lot about managing physical and mental impairments recently. Not the permanent ones, but the ones that may come on suddenl... Read More..

Mandated Pay Transparency – the Public Posting of Salaries Being Offered – Is Imminent in NYC and CA

October 24, 2022Employee Relations, Employer Notice Requirements, HR Policies, New York City Employers

At the onset of the pandemic, when businesses were being shut down, new government edicts were materializing by the hour and it felt like the world had turned on its head, I heard from a great many clients, each trying in their own way to sort thr... Read More..