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The Step-By-Step Sexual Harassment Prevention Guide for California Employers
Here's your guide to the latest rules and advice on what constitutes sexual harassment—and how you can prevent it. Find out how to investigate harassment complaints, protect yourself from lawsuits by fired harassers, handle harassment charges involving vendors or customers, manage the delicate issue of workplace dating, and comply with recent California rules regarding sexual harassment training for managers. Also included are a comprehensive sample anti-harassment policy and an employee complaint form that you can adapt to fit your organization's needs.
Managing Leave and Reinstatement for Military Reservists
With thousands of reservists called up for military action and many returning back to their jobs, employers need to understand their legal obligations to workers who take leave to serve in the armed forces. To help you comply with these complex rules, we've put together a complete, fully updated guide to the federal and California military leave laws, which includes two sample policies and a checklist to help ensure you're in compliance.
Compliance Guide To The Federal Family And Medical Leave Act And The California Family Rights Act
This Compliance Guide will make your job easier by pulling together the must-know essentials of the family leave laws. It includes a summary of the family leave regulations, detailed explanations of both employer and employee rights and obligations, and a sample medical certification form.
Employee or Independent Contractor? Hiring and Classifying Contract Workers In California
This Employer Guide takes you step by step through the process of evaluating whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent contractor. You'll understand the various tests for deciding a worker's status and find a handy 20-point checklist to help you assess where you stand. You'll also learn how a worker's status impacts benefits, your liability for discrimination, and your workers' comp obligations. Includes a sample independent contractor agreement you can adapt to your specific needs.
50 Secrets for Preventing Employee Lawsuits—Plus 10 Tips for Saving Money and Aggravation If You're Sued
Our 50-point self-audit checklist pulls together—in an easy-to-follow format—all the important areas that should be reviewed at least annually by small and large employers alike. Customize the checklist to fit your own needs, and remember to perform an audit whenever your organization undergoes significant changes. Includes practical sample forms and policies to help bring your company into compliance with the maze of legal requirements.
Who's Entitled to Overtime? How to Avoid Mistakes When Classifying California Employees
Many employers mistakenly believe that simply paying a salary or bestowing an impressive job title is enough to make an employee exempt from the overtime rules. In fact, only one thing really matters—the employee's duties. If you sometimes have trouble figuring out which employees are exempt and which ones aren't, this report will clear the confusion and guide you through this complicated area of the law. Includes helpful checklists you can use to determine who's exempt and who isn't. Plus, you'll find out which common pay practices to avoid, so you don't inadvertently destroy an employee's exempt status.
