Friday, May 17, 2024

LEGAL: How to get the most from your HR audit

Human resource audits are important, both to evaluate the effectiveness of a company’s HR function, and to ensure compliance with federal, state and local...

Legal Perspective: Workers’ Comp: how to deny a claim and make it stick

Often employers are confronted with situations in which an employee’s claim is either fraudulent or at least exaggerated regarding its severity

LEGAL: Policies against employee videos/recordings unlawful

Like many employers, your employee handbook may contain some version of the following rule: Without prior management approval or consent, recording conversations, phone calls and...

VIEWPOINT: Cookeville Kmart’s departure a sad one  

Earlier this week, I sat in my parked car and watched as a man in a cherry-picker worked to remove the remaining signage from...

LEGAL: Updates to Tennessee Drug-Free Workplace Act

By Jeff Jones Special to the UCBJ Effective May 6, 2018, the Tennessee Department of Labor amended Regulations under the Drug-Free Workplace Act (“the Act”). Below are...

LEGAL: TN workers’ comp reform promises many employer-friendly changes

In 2013, the Tennessee General Assembly enacted major workers’ compensation changes initiated by Gov. Bill Haslam and supported by the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce...