An employer’s right to discipline employees for actions outside the workplace is not always clear-cut. Even in states covered by “at will” employment — where the law allows you to terminate an employee for any reason, or no reason — firing employees for activities outside the workplace can be illegal due to privacy, anti-discrimination or…
December 1, 2015, Tanya Salgado, Esq., White and Williams LLP, Philadelphia Most human resources professionals are comfortable issuing discipline to employees who engage in workplace misconduct during the workday; simply consult the handbook and determine the appropriate course of action based upon the nature and level of the offense. The situation becomes considerably more fraught,…
August 14, 2017 by Jon Hyman, partner at Meyers Roman Friedberg & Lewis and blogger at Ohio Employer’s Law Blog. In the wake of Friday and Saturday’s horrific, evil events in Charlottesville, the twitter account YesYoureRacist posted many riot photos and identified many of the rioters. And, as a result, some have lost their jobs. UPDATE: Cole White, the…
Over two decades ago, two of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history sprung up one after another—first Enron, then WorldCom—after the companies became mired in accounting and financial fraud. In 2002, in response to these ethics breaches, President Bush passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which established many of the internal controls now common in U.S.…
Mary Gentile, Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership Mary Gentile, Creator/Director of Giving Voice to Values, explains why how to respond when one of your subordinates raises a concern about an ethics issue. Originally by Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership. Used by kind permission of NDDCEL.
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