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Top 10 Most Frightening Employment Law Violations

In preparation for my upcoming October 30 Halloween webinar, entitled Answers to the World’s Scariest Employment Law Questions, I conducted a survey of the finest employment lawyers in the country to get their answers to the following question:

What are the top ten employment law issues most likely to wake you up screaming in the middle of the night?

Here are the answers . . .

  1. Inadequate knowledge of employment law basics
  2. Executive misconduct
  3. Any form of discrimination
  4. Wage and hour violations
  5. Retaliation
  6. Inadequate investigation
  7. Failure to follow policies
  8. Bad documentation/communication
  9. Emotional rather than fact-based decisions
  10. Inconsistency

Over the next few weeks leading up to the webinar, we’ll give you our recommendations for reducing the scream-inducing capacity of each of these truly frightening items.

In the meantime, I suggest using this list as a sort of self-audit priority list.  Start with #1, assess your company’s risk, and then take steps to fix it.  Then move on to #2 and repeat.  If you get all the way through #10, you (and your lawyers) should be able to sleep a whole lot better.

More to follow.

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2 Responses to “Top 10 Most Frightening Employment Law Violations”

  1. laurie ruettimann Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 8:01 am

    Mark, how are you? Just checking in to say hello. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but we have a Human Resources social networking group with almost 200 HR Bloggers.

    http://www.hrbloggers.com

    It’s a good forum and a great place for more exposure (like you need that, LOL).

    I just wanted to be INCLUSIVE and offer you a SEAT AT THE TABLE.

    :) Laurie

  2. Mark Toth Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 6:42 am

    Thanks, Laurie — I’ll check it out. Hope all’s well with you, too! (By the way, for those of you who haven’t seen Laurie’s site (the rather intriguingly titled “Punk Rock HR”), you should drop whatever you’re doing right now and visit it).

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