Archive for the ‘Employment Law’ Category

Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Any person in a management position who uses or condones implicit or explicit sexual behavior to control, influence, or affect the career, pay, or job is engaging in sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in the workplace is against the law. An employer has a legal responsibility to provide a workplace free from sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination involving unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors, and other verbal and physical conduct of a sexual natur…

Employee Rights: Disability Discrimination

Always remember, you can ask people about their abilities, but you can’t ask about their disabilities. This means that you can ask how an applicant plans to perform each function of the job, but you cannot ask whether the applicant has any disabilities that will prevent him or her from performing each function of the job.One way to ensure that you stay within the rules is to attach a detailed job description to the application or describe the job duties to the applicant during the job interview….