Hire Right/Fire Right: A Manager's Guide to Employment Practices That Avoid Lawsuits

Few small businesses have full-time personnel managers or in-house counsel to help them negotiate the vast tangle of laws, rules, and regulations that govern even the most common employment practices. This book aims to provide owners of small businesses and their managers with the expert legal assistance they need to hire and fire employees without fear of legal retribution. This desktop legal advisor first covers all aspects of the hiring process, from establishing job qualifications to searching, screening, and interviewing applicants and making the job offer. It then focuses on firing, with special emphasis on documenting poor employee performance and implementing permissible disciplinary techniques. "Hire right / fire right" helps managers comply with complex EEO rules, confidently handle sexual harassment problems, and deal with the sensitive problem of hiring and firing union members.