Employment law is a constantly changing field and your policies and practices must stay current to be compliant with those legal changes. Although a complete HR Audit is critical to all of your polices and practices, many lawsuits can be traced to four key practices in employment areas:
- Hiring
- Does your organization have solid and compliant job descriptions?
- Do you use up-to-date job applications?
- Do you ensure all applicants fill out an application?
- Employee Evaluations
- Does your organization have and follow a written schedule for performance evaluations?
- Do performance evaluators receive proper training?
- Does your organization ensure performance evaluation changes have proper documentation?
- Employee Discipline
- As part of your Employee Handbook, is there a standardized disciplinary system? What do you do to ensure it is followed consistently?
- Prior to an employee discipline action, how do you ensure the violation has been properly investigated?
- Terminations
- Has the termination decision been compared to other terminations?
- Can you assure the termination is not a retaliation?
- Are you comfortable that you have proper termination documentation?
The best way to avoid potential employee lawsuits is to conduct a regular audit – HR Solutions, suggests at least every 2 years an audit of all of your policies and practices should be conducted.
Give us a call at 443-356-4352 if you are concerned that you might need a Human Resource Audit.
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