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Legal

Exit interviews do nothing

by Lance Haun on August 30, 2006

Inspired by this article on The Onion (a satire newspaper and website), I wanted to share with you my thoughts on exit interviews. The purpose of the exit interview is two fold (one obvious, one not so obvious): 1. To gather data from departing employees on working conditions to improve retention 2. To attempt to [...]

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I fought the law and the law won

by Lance Haun on August 3, 2006

While many of the HR people I know in the field are very principled people but one thing where that changes is in regards to the law, specifically employment law. Litigation avoidance is one of the main assumptions most people in my field make about their employers. And not to get too political on you [...]

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Sexual harassment is still a hot button issue

by Lance Haun on June 19, 2006

Recruiting Animal responded to a series of posts I made regarding the termination of an employee for offering “copious BJ’s” to other employees for taking a shift of his. The discussion that unfolds is very interesting. There seems to be two schools of thought unfolding. One is that the language he used was obviously crude [...]

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Offering Copious BJ’s at Work — Part 2

by Lance Haun on June 12, 2006

Where I left you last, I had terminated Matt, the person who talked about offering “copious BJ’s” to anybody who would take his shift. I told my IT person to kill his account but my IT person went home first and was going to do it later that night. That’s when I realized the advantages [...]

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Offering Copious BJ’s at Work — Part 1

by Lance Haun on June 12, 2006

It’s not a joke, it’s one of the first problems I had to deal with as a manager. I was working as a manager in an administrative portion of a major university. I worked with a mixed group of classified employees and student staff. Since there were shifts between students and things always came up, [...]

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Working with lawyers

by Lance Haun on June 4, 2006

I never thought I would ever have a job where I would have a lawyer’s cell phone number for professional assistance. I guess I should change that and say “not so soon.” With litigation laws like they are and penalties for out-of-compliance employers on a broad range of issues, a lawyer has become as valuable [...]

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