Must I disclose my diagnosis or is a doctor’s note enough to request a medical accommodation?
I am requesting a private room for a sales meeting due to a chronic medical condition. My doctor has sent a letter to this effect. [...]
About Rita M. Risser Chai
Rita M. Risser Chai was an attorney in California for 20 years and now is an attorney in Hawaii. She authored the Prentice Hall book, Stay Out of Court! The Manager’s Guide to Preventing Employee Lawsuits, and she developed most of the curriculum used by Fair Measures including the firm’s first website which was praised in HR Magazine. She also wrote numerous articles on employment law including one on best practice harassment prevention training published in the magazine of the American Society for Training and Development (now ATD). She taught Law and Human Resources at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for eight years, and has presented four times at the annual conventions of the Hawaii Society of Human Resource Management.Can my employer require me to post a photograph of myself on the staff directory?
Can my employer require me to post a photograph on the staff directory, available to all? I am hesitant for several reasons, one of which [...]
10 Minute Training after Harassment Complaint is Not Enough
A company that responded to a racial harassment complaint with 10 minutes of training must now go to trial to try to prove it took [...]
Can my employer surveil me in public and ask sexually explicit questions about my personal life?
Can my employer follow me after business hours and take pictures on his phone of a car parked in my apartment complex and ask about [...]
Is it legal for my employer to ask me for my personal vehicle insurance information for my personnel file?
Is it legal for my employer to ask me for my personal vehicle insurance information for my personnel file? Am I obligated to give it to [...]
Can employers legally share all staff time sheets on-line in our shared officer folder?
I'm concerned about staff other than my supervisor having access to my leave. We all know when people are in the office, but isn't it [...]
New Gay Rights Laws Announced
Posted 11-10-2015 Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding gay marriage, new laws—and new interpretations of old laws—are being proposed to protect the employment rights [...]
What is the “legal” definition of insubordination?
Posted 10-12-1997 Rita Risser's response: The word insubordinate can be seen as in = not, subordinate = subject to the authority of another. Someone who [...]
Can I fire an employee because she is related to a Board member?
I am acting as President of the company. The company merged with another and we now have 4 owners on the board. The board voted [...]
Can manager tell employees about other employee’s write-ups?
Our manager tells other employees that a certain employee will be getting written up before she has served the write up. Is this ok? Posted 09-09-2015 [...]