03/02/2012
Today’s employment environment has changed. The laws governing how you run your business are stacked against you. If you don’t have an HR expert on your side, then you are walking around with a target on your back. Don’t add thousands to your overhead by hiring one; get what your business requires the affordable way with HR Solutions On-Call. You will be glad that you did.
Fact: 19% more cases are being filed by employees against their employers under Obama than under Bush. What’s worse is that those lawsuits are now costing employers 78% more than they used to: a whopping $264,000 average per suit! (www.eeoc.gov, “EEOC Litigation Statistics,” EEOC, 2 March 2012)
Lesson: The Obama Administration is publishing hotlines and encouraging employees to report their employers. You MUST have someone on your side because the deck is stacked against you. Your new answer to the problem is HR Solutions On-Call.
Fact: In 1998, the Supreme Court established the circumstances under which an employer could avoid vicarious liability for the misconduct of its supervisors pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Faragher v Boca Raton. 524 U.S. 775. Supreme Court of the United States. 1998. Legal Information Institute. Web. 2 Mar 2012.) Even so, over 3,500 businesses have lost over $882,600,000 in lawsuits since the ruling because they failed to take the appropriate steps to protect themselves. (www.eeoc.gov, “EEOC Litigation Statistics,” EEOC, 2 March 2012)
Lesson: You should take the appropriate steps to protect your business by getting HR Solutions On-Call. Your first benefit is what the Supreme Court considers a “Comprehensive Sexual Harassment Prevention Program.”
Fact: Last year, a hospital in California chose not to hire 8 nurses with life-threatening latex allergies because it feared for the nurses’ personal safety. The EEOC sued the hospital claiming that the hospital should have hired them and then removed ALL latex products from the hospital as a part of “reasonable accommodation.” The hospital paid a settlement of $340,000. (San Francisco Chronicle, "Workers denied jobs over latex allergy settle case," Bob Egelko, 17 March 2011)
Lesson: The right decisions are often counter-intuitive. Advice from an HR expert could have prevented the settlement AND the need to accommodate so radically.
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