The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has published a comprehensive guideline paper on harassment issues in the workplace.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-harassment-workplace
Our commentary to follow.
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The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has published a comprehensive guideline paper on harassment issues in the workplace.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-harassment-workplace
Our commentary to follow.
What the most complex regulatory issues faced by small business?
Employment regulations.
Federal and state employment regulations. And in a some cases city regulations.
Your business lawyer and your public accountant (CPA/EA) can provide some information and support, also your local business chamber or association.
We will follow with a series on employment regulations.
Of late we are seeing layoffs and downsizing in several sectors of the economy.
This is not a recession, the overall job market is still doing well (and we hope it stays that way).
Mass layoffs are sometimes necessary, although we wonder why situations deteriorate to this point. Not all of the layoffs are in floundering companies.
Does anyone considering the longer term impacts on morale and retention? Does not seem so.
Will employees be as loyal? Maybe not.