Ask a Manager

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is this legal? First, though, if you’re saying that the receptionist takes time off but doesn’t charge it to her PTO balance, that’s not illegal (the law leaves stuff like that up to employers) but it’s presumably against your office policy and someone can require her to use real time off for it. I’m so confused.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 2, 2015

Tell her that you’ve noticed a pattern where she violates various policies until she’s told to stop, and that going forward you need her complying with all office policies, without exception. Tell her that if she continues to violate policies, you’ll need to let her go, and that this is the final warning she’ll receive.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 10, 2020

I apparently violated an (unknown) office policy, but it was honestly well-intended. They can require a two-week quarantine period, and they can require it be unpaid — but they cannot legally permit him to work while they’re not paying him. She said that was ridiculous; it ended at that. Do I owe her one?

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 27, 2016

the employer wouldn’t be legally required to speak to a former employee as part of this kind of investigation. I work in a pediatrician’s office which happens to be in a resort area. The pediatrician’s office policy is that we will not see vacationers as patients but will refer them to an urgent care facility.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 9, 2020

You could bring it up in an early interview in the process of talking about the office culture or “general things about us you should know.” You could include it in hands-out on office policies and benefits that you give candidates. You can’t eat any of your culture’s food at work” isn’t okay, legally or ethically.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 5, 2025

While COVID brought emergency measures such as furlough, the legal framework underpinning employment has remained largely intact. What has shifted, however, is the prominence of certain legal rights and protections for the employee especially around health and safety, flexible working.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon scorned calls from some employees to soften the bank’s five-day return-to-office policy in an animated town hall meeting on Wednesday, according to a recording reviewed by Reuters. Employees at the largest U.S. It’s my fault. I’m the boss.”

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Work Life

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Because of legal concerns and political backlash, however, many firms maintaining or expanding their DEI commitments have started calling it something else. Systemize equity by examining policies and procedures to embed and sustain fairness throughout. For example, inclusive leadership, or just good leadership.

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Work Life

JANUARY 29, 2025

Those who stayed would also have to abide by the new return-to-office policy , which would require them to come in daily. “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,” they wrote at the time. . Is any of this legal?

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