Eric Swenson's Leadership Blog

As much as many employers would love to regulate and/or minimize relationships between employees, they rarely work, according to today’s...

The trend with employees who are mistreated by their bosses is only escalating. Most poor managers are simply in denial that they treat...

A fear of some business owners is that the teaching of sexual harassment training to employees is an invitation to encourage lawsuits....

From our friends at Allen Matkins… Significant Changes Announced To Employer’s Obligations Upon Receipt of No-Match Letter The Department...

The Office of Administrative Law has adopted the Fair Employment and Housing Commissions regulations for AB 1825 Sexual Harassment...

Today’s Modesto Bee illustrates a popular scam, one we see every year. You should place the updated poster in your workplace, but don’t...

From our friends at Gevity: 1. Offering candidates uncompetitive compensation. Offering prospective hires a competitive compensation...

Should you re-hire a former employee? Theories vary. Lew Wasserman re-hired just one employee in his 60 years at Universal (Frank...

The Tallahasee Democrat poses a question – why is sexual harrasment is prevelent? (Answer is – because there’s still ignorant people out...

E-mail is a positive and negative. What’s surprising is how many businesses have not taken steps to adopt a policy regarding e-mails. ...

Despite the growing popularity of so-called ‘love contracts’, they’re a really bad practice. While any manager would strongly prefer to...

In the never-ending world of revising your Employee Handbook, here’s the latest need for an additional policy – blogging at work. Don’t...

Wow. 75% of all employees are looking to change jobs before the end of the year. The cost to interview, train, and manage an new...

If you need to layoff employees, make sure the criteria you use is both consistent and business-related. There is a huge potential for...

There’s way too much overuse of e-mail in the workplace. And many managers are using e-mail for the ultimate no-no: reprimanding...

The EEOC reports that there’s a sharp increase in men filing sexual harassment charges. Harassment of the same sex is prohibited; make...

The tragedy of this story is that it’s likely the business owner – the one who had to write a check for $85,000 (plus attorney’s fees)...

This is by no means a comprehensive audit checklist, but it’s well written and focuses on the major issues California businesses needs to...

Every Employee Handbook should include a defined grievance procedure, which outlines the steps an employee must take when he/she has a...

The number of harassment cases involving the e-mails of employees is on the rise. Make sure you have an air-tight, written policy...