Employee Relations

Dealing with foul-smelling workers: 6 tips for ‘The talk’

08/07/2007

Hosting a termination meeting may be easier than having to tell an employee that he or she has offensive body odor. Here are six tips for handling the issue in your workplace:

Employees’ kids in the workplace: To ban or not?

08/01/2007

A participant in the Forum section of our HR Weekly e-letter (www.theHRSpecialist.com/weekly) complained of the “constant, low-grade distraction” of employees’ children in the office—particularly in summer. He posed this question: “Is it best to ban employees’ kids from the workplace?” Here are some of the comments from other HR professionals …

Employee pays when customers don’t?

08/01/2007

Q. I own a four-star restaurant in a large metropolitan area. Unfortunately, customers sometimes skip out on their checks. Can I deduct from the waitress’s salary the money owed by a fleeing customer? …

4 steps to help employees reach their peak performance

08/01/2007

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Employee Relations

Dealing with foul-smelling workers: 6 tips for ‘The talk’

Employees’ kids in the workplace: To ban or not?

Employee pays when customers don’t?

4 steps to help employees reach their peak performance

Whistle-Blowers held to letter of the law

Same rule, different punishment OK if you can justify

Court tells employer to tell customers: We’re sexual harassers

Threat to blow whistle on banking practices not protected

No one wins in unprofitable victory for Saginaw police officer

Discipline employee who refuses to abide by safety rules

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