Employment discrimination against race, disability, age, gender, and so on have to be eliminated at workplaces. Different workplace laws are implemented for preventing employment discrimination. The legal, human resources, and risk management departments of large companies deal with these issues. Small business owners can follow some of these suggestions for dealing with workplace laws.
- The current laws, benefits, regulations and other information should be informed clearly to the employees. The Department of Labor, the EEOC, and other trade associations can help in providing the related information of workplace laws.
- Small business owners can document and keep a record of the performance and problems of all employees.
- A company manual explaining the procedures and policies can be given to each employee.
- It is better to give a written job description to an employee. It helps in clearing misunderstanding of expectation and discrimination suits. All the details of job function including duties and responsibilities, promotional qualities and others can be provided to employees. An employee can thus know about the duties that are expected from the employers.
- Employers need to develop a corrective action plan in order to handle problems. Certain warnings are given to the employees on occurrence of certain problems. They can be given certain time period for resolving the problem.
- Workplace injuries can be avoided by implementing a safety management program.
- Open and honest communication with employees help in avoiding or rectifying the workplace problems.
- Employee benefits, safety and risk management, labor relations and other issues can be advised by certain outside professionals for small businesses.
It can be helpful for employers to follow some of these suggestions. They may enhance a safe workplace environment.
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