Getting It Right! Managing Employee Performance
Posted 04-14-2010 For many managers, the annual performance review is, like death and taxes, dreaded and inevitable. But it doesn't have to be that way. [...]
About Ann Kiernan
Ann Kiernan has litigated claims of wrongful discharge and discrimination before state and federal courts and administrative matters before the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, representing both employers and employees. Ms. Kiernan co-hosted The Employee Rights Forum, a weekly radio call-in show reaching up to a half-million listeners in the New York metropolitan area, and her articles on employment law have been published in many books and magazines. Both as a firm partner and as a director, Ms. Kiernan gained solid experience in management and human resources compliance. She has worked with Fair Measures since 1997.Read ’em and Weep: Near-Record Number of EEOC Charges Filed in 2009
Posted 03-03-2010 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that employees filed 93,277 workplace discrimination charges with the federal agency nationwide during Fiscal [...]
Court to Blogger: No Constitutional Right to Be Mean
Posted 02-10-2010 Tara Richerson worked for a school district as a coach and mentor to new teachers. She was an active blogger, as well. One day [...]
Is my employer allowed to confirm my salary information?
If I write on a credit application what my salary is and that creditor calls the payroll department at my work, is the payroll employee [...]
Can I ask an employee when she intends to resign?
An employee may be going to another company but has not given a notice. Is it OK for a supervisor to demand a date of [...]
Do I have to work with someone who I feel harassed me?
I dated a guy from work. Oops. Now he calls me “bitch” and throws things near me, but not at me. When I brought this [...]
Can a supervisor dictate a specific work schedule for one employee in the group and not the others?
I work in a department with 4 exempt employees and a supervisor. Everyone else is currently working a different schedule that is convenient for them, [...]
What are the rights of the accused in a workplace investigation?
I am a manager who is responsible for multiple projects and works with people from different departments. A few months ago, I was accused of [...]
Can we fire an employee who has used up his FMLA leave?
We have an employee who has been out under NJ state disability insurance for five months, and has therefore exhausted his FMLA leave. We have [...]
Is my boss violating any laws when he makes me have my full name on my work badge?
Posted 02-25-2015 Ann Kiernan replies: It is perfectly legal to require you to wear a name badge at work. In fact, it is required in many [...]