10 Tips for Avoiding Employment-Related Litigation

In an American Association of Orthopaedic Executives brief, D. Albert Brannen, a partner with Fisher & Phillips, lays out 10 tips for employers to minimize employment-related litigation.

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The 10 tips are:

1. Hire the right people using the right recruitment sources and legally compliant paperwork.
2. Communicate your policies and have them in writing.
3. Pay employees correctly.
4. Address employee complaints.
5. Train decision-makers, such as managers, to ensure that they do not violate employee rights.
6. Give employees objective goals.
7. Use performance evaluations.
8. Use discipline to help rehabilitate an underperforming employee, however don’t promise that termination is not a possibility.
9. Empathize with employees.
10. Act as if every decision that adversely affects an employee could lead to litigation.  

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