Can I file a complaint against my employee?
Every time I discipline a staff member, which is legitimate, she retaliates with baseless claims. The union agreed. I feel as if I'm bullied [...]
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.Is it legal for your employer to email embarrassing photos of employees to everyone?
Is it legal for your employer to take photos off the cameras of employees, talking, scratching their ear etc and send them in emails [...]
Can we show employee pay stubs to a client?
We have a long-term client whom we have done work for, for several years & they are requesting employee pay stubs to confirm what [...]
Stopping Jerks on Zoom
The firing of legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin from the New Yorker for jerking off during a meeting is only the grossest example of harassment [...]
HR told my boss I wanted to go to graduate school full time and he let me go. Is this legal?
HR asked if I was interested in leaving my job so I could go to graduate school full time. I told her I would [...]
My full-time employer contacted my part-time employer—is this legal?
I work full time for a company, and I also do a small amount of consulting work in my spare time for another company. [...]
My manager outed me as transgender at a meeting, what recourse do I have?
During a company meeting, my regional manager disclosed that I was transgender to the company. Who do I talk to about this? What type [...]
Values to Work By
Six months ago, when COVID first hit the U.S., our eNews article was about showing respect for all those around us: essential workers onsite, [...]
Can I force HR to show me a paper they say I signed?
I was fired from a school in 2006 because our new boss didn’t like me despite my achievements. I went elsewhere, and later retired. [...]
Can my employer ask me about attending protests?
Rita Risser Chai Replies: Asking about your involvement in a group related to your gender, race, national origin, age, political beliefs, and so on, [...]