Archive for August, 2009

Protecting Your Company from Departing Employees

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I may be naive, but I believe that most employees leaving one job for another want to leave in as amicable a way as possible. Most of them have no intention of stealing your trade secrets, unfairly competing against you or hurting your business in any way.
But then there are the other departing employees. They [...]

Keep An Employee Disciplinary Log

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

In the May 2009 San Antonio appeals case of Cantu v. Frito-Lay, Inc., the employer beat a discrimination charge by a former employee because the company kept good records of the kinds of disciplinary action applied to employee misconduct and the reasons such actions were taken.
I often advise employers to keep a running log of [...]