Resignations

An introduction to North Carolina Employment Security Law

05/28/2008

The North Carolina Employment Security Law provides unemployment compensation benefits for some employees who lose their jobs. To qualify, unemployed workers must have registered for work and periodically report to an unemployment office. Occasionally eligibility disputes find their way into court …

Threatening, but not hostile

05/23/2008

Keith Harris and Dennis Alexander, who are black, sued Joseph Orlando, owner of Cobra Construction, for constructive discharge and racial discrimination, saying they were forced to quit out of fear for their lives …

17 Questions to Determine if Workers are Fully Engaged

05/22/2008

Don’t think you can pick out disengaged workers from a lineup. Employees usually check out mentally long before you spot the obvious signs—poor productivity, absenteeism, lousy customer service. Find out whether your employees are fully engaged in their work by asking them these 17 questions.

Receptionist delivers messages from hell

05/13/2008

Zachary Winspear joined Community Development, Inc. (CDI), a property management company in Golden Valley, as a personal assistant to company president Charles Schneider. As the two grew close, Winspear confided to Schneider that his brother had committed suicide …

Worker quit voluntarily? Don’t rule out discrimination suit

05/06/2008

Employees who quit generally can’t sue for discrimination—unless they can show that they were essentially forced out because conditions were intolerable. But don’t think simply accepting an employee’s resignation note lets the company entirely off the hook …

You picked a fine time to leave me: Penalties for quitting without notice

05/01/2008

Q. Can an employer in Colorado fine an employee who quits without giving two weeks’ notice? …

OSU-Mansfield librarian sues over religious persecution

05/01/2008

Scott Savage, a former Ohio State University-Mansfield reference librarian, is suing the university over discrimination he says he suffered because of his Christian beliefs …

South Bend postal boss’s comments not harassment

04/22/2008

Jennifer Ohda was hired in 2004 as a part-time mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in South Bend. On her first day, Ohda was assigned to a male training officer named Dale. At the end of Ohda’s shift, a supervisor, Linda Batteast, said, “Dale, tell your little helper to go home tonight and eat something.” …

Make common sense the driving force of your business

04/10/2008

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Asking to get fired in order to receive unemployment comp benefits

04/01/2008

Q. An employee just told me he wants to resign, but he asked to be fired instead of resigning. He said it had to do with unemployment benefits. What is the significance? …