The following is an article that recently appeared in the BNA Bulletin to Management with some imbedded comments from A Plus Benefits. As E-Verify, No-Match Rules, I-9s Evolve, Employers Need to Stay on Top of Issues While awaiting government action on various immigration issues, employers must continue to staff their workplaces, avoid the dramatically increased fines for [Read More...]

As a business owner, manager, supervisor, you wonder why your expectations for work attendance seem to be communicated to your employees in an ancient language that no one understands. Why is it so hard for everyone to understand that you really do expect an employee to show up and work the posted schedule? On close examination, [Read More...]

7th Circuit: Overbroad Non-compete Was Unenforceable By Chris Arbery and Angela Mahdi The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s ruling that a former employee of Cintas Corp. did not violate the terms of his non-compete agreement because the agreement itself was overbroad and, therefore, unenforceable. The appeals court further held that the district [Read More...]

Let Your Managers/Supervisors Ask These Questions – You’ll Get One. 1) I think you’re depressed. Shouldn’t you see somebody? Comments like this may be made with the best of intentions, but they can have disastrous repercussions. That’s because questions about medical conditions and disabilities put you on record as “regarding” or having the perception of the employee [Read More...]

EEO - Religious Discrimination Worker’s Religious Needs Were Accommodated, Court Decides Firestone Fibers and Textiles Co. reasonably accommodated a laboratory employee’s religious observances in compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by providing several options for him not to work during his weekly Sabbath and religious holidays, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [Read More...]