Quirky Question # 79: Like many companies, we periodically have situations where two of our employees get romantically involved. (We don’t have a non-fraternization policy and don’t attempt to limit these relationships in any other way.) Sometimes, the two involved...
Quirky Question # 76: I read with interest your analysis of alternatives to layoffs [Quirky Question # 71]. We have a slightly different issue. Like many companies, we are facing the difficult prospect of downsizing staff. We are a small...
Quirky Question # 71: The country is in a recession. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. employers reduced the size of their workforces by more than 500,000 employees in November alone, with an eleven-month total of more than...
Quirky Question # 66: One of our employees recently advised us that she and her two children were suffering from domestic violence by her husband. She requested us to provide her time off to move herself and her children out...
Quirky Question # 50: We are a small to mid-size company, with a relatively small legal department. We have a General Counsel. He, in turn, supervises two other attorneys. The General Counsel joined our company about two years ago, and...
Quirky Question # 46: We are a privately held company that runs a large software sales organization. The family that started our company and that still dominates its executive ranks has conservative values. Among those issues about which the owners...
Quirky Question # 45: We recently had an employee voluntarily resign because she found employment with our company “unbearable.” She then sought unemployment benefits. It is my understanding that an employee in Washington who quits is not entitled to unemployment...
Quirky Question # 36: We recently learned that one of our employees has illegal pornography on his work computer. We know we can discipline him (up to and including termination).The police recently requested a copy of his computer hard drive. ...
Quirky Question # 29: Our company has offices in California. This year we want to improve our document retention practices. We’ve decided to maintain electronic records of personnel files. Can we do this in California? We were told that California...
Quirky Question # 18: We recently terminated one of our executives. One of our standard practices when we terminate a senior executive is to check carefully his/her email communications for the preceding twelve months. When we checked this executive’s email...
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