One of the purposes of good Human Resources is to prevent lawsuits. But your HR person and your employment attorney don’t follow you around all the time. So, business attorney Josh Joel, Counsel at Stanton Law, put together a list of phrases that often come out of managers’ mouths. When you start thinking this way, you’re getting ready to be sued.
- “I’ll just 1099 this employee.”
- “He’s salaried, I don’t need to worry about overtime.”
- “Non-competes are not enforceable, right?”
- “I’ll handle this EEOC charge on my own.”
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That list sounds like a big excuse list used by people in a position of management to avoid doing the right thing. Combine that with employees who have illusions about job performance and you have a workplace that is a toxic situation. That’s why there’s labor laws and job descriptions