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Water Cooler Talk: Performance Review Tips From ‘Severance’

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This article is part of a monthly column that connects popular culture to hot-button labor and employment law issues. In this installment, we discuss how the performance review process in the hit television series “Severance”...more

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Performance Evaluations: Training Managers Is Key

Employee performance is always rated in one manner or another. Best practice is to rate this performance through known, objective processes. In the context of the employment relationship, performance evaluations are an...more

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SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights, Issue 2, June 2023

Considerations for Employing AI in the Workplace - What is workplace artificial intelligence or AI? In its simplest form, AI in the workplace is the use of technology or software to monitor employees’ work performance,...more

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Best Practices for Handling and Documenting a Non-Performing Employee

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Addressing an employee's failure to meet performance expectations can be challenging for an employer. This article highlights best practices for handling and documenting a non-performing employee....more

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Don’t Be Left Out In The Cold on Effective Performance Reviews: Five Tips You Need To Know

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Tis the season for employee performance reviews! In the midst of the chaos that is the holiday season and end-of-year deadlines, employee performance reviews are often scheduled during this busy time of the year. An impending...more

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Above-Average Performance Reviews Counter Employer's Grounds for Termination

​​​​​​​“Grade inflation” is a well-known phenomenon in the academic sphere, where grade-point averages creep up over time despite the lack of performance-based reasons for the increase. Grade inflation can also be an issue...more

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Demote an Employee After a Positive Performance Review? Federal Appeals Court Says Not So Fast

Although it seems counterintuitive, we regularly run across situations where clients want to fire or demote an employee who recently received a promotion, stellar performance review, or some other kind of reward for good...more

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Evaluation Notices Due to Teachers

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Section 50.100 of the ISBE teacher evaluation regulations requires that teachers who are to be evaluated during the upcoming school term be notified that they will be evaluated and provided with certain information regarding...more

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The Value of a Good Performance Review

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Getting supervisors and managers to prepare detailed and thorough performance reviews is like getting kids to eat their vegetables. They don’t want to do it, and they’ll look for excuses to avoid it. But just as good parents...more

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Are Performance Improvement Plans the Best Practice?

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Categories: Employment, Article I often get asked – what is the best way to terminate an employee? Often, the discussion centers around whether the employer should issue a written warning and/or performance improvement plan...more

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Performance Counseling and Mediation Session Not Considered Adverse Employment Actions Under Title VII

Employees cannot sue under federal anti-discrimination laws for every perceived slight or workplace occurrence. In order to be actionable, the alleged employer conduct must rise to the level of an “adverse employment action.”...more

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Third Circuit Permits Terminated Employee to Present Broad Comparisons to Others

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The Third Circuit’s recent decision in Andujar v. General Nutrition Corporation (GNC) should remind employers that termination of an employee based on poor performance should result from clear policies, and that personalized...more

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Four Things Employers do to Make the Holidays (or Any Time of Year) Happier for Plaintiffs’ Attorneys

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Employers want a happy workforce; that’s a given. But there are certain things that employers do to further that goal that might as well be a present tied with a bow for a plaintiff’s attorney after an employment relationship...more

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11th Circ. Reminds Employers Why Best Practices Matter

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What happens when an employer’s allegedly good documentation of an employee’s poor performance is met with an employee’s allegations that she was subjected to multiple racially charged comments in a two-month period? A...more

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What Tiger Woods Can Teach HR About Using Performance Improvement Plans to Salvage Struggling Employees

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Last weekend’s Ryder Cup notwithstanding, Tiger Woods has made an impressive comeback by winning the PGA Tour Championship in September. The win was Tiger’s 80th victory on the PGA tour but his first since 2013 after a long...more

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Television Shows And Performance Evaluations: It’s All About The Ratings, Baby

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In May each year, broadcast TV, cable, and streaming services begin announcing series renewals and cancellations. This process continues well into the summer....more

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A Shield or a Sword? The Role of Performance Evaluations in Employment Litigation

Performance reviews are intended to provide feedback and identify opportunities for growth. They can also help an employee understand how well the employee is meeting the employer’s expectations. ...more

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New Act Prohibits Employers in Puerto Rico from Using Absences to Measure Employee Efficiency and Performance

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On Saturday, January 27, 2018, the Governor of Puerto Rico signed into law Act No. 60, establishing greater protections for non-exempt private sector employees by prohibiting employers from using sick leave to measure...more

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Tips For Conducting Year-End Performance Evaluations

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Holiday parties aren’t the only thing your employees are buzzing about this time of year – ‘tis the season for year-end performance evaluations! Performance evaluations, when used properly, are a powerful tool for...more

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Don’t Sugarcoat Performance Evaluations

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Many people want to be liked. Problems arise, however, when a supervisor’s desire to be liked prevents them from pointing out deficiencies in an employee’s work. Pointing out deficiencies is a way for supervisors to help...more

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