“The Basics of Progressive Discipline”
The Basics of Progressive Discipline
The Basics of Progressive Discipline
What You Should Be Looking For In An Unemployment Software
Employee disciplinary actions are often the most scrutinized part of your duties as a Human Resources professional. If you don’t have the proper evidence and documentation to back up your decision, you could end up in court. At the very least, your documentation might not stand up if you need to protest an unemployment insurance claim. The following are a few do’s and don’ts of employee discipline:
Training Your Management Staff Will Save You Money On Protestable Unemployment Insurance Claims
How many of you have received an unemployment insurance claim in the mail or on your agency web page and then tried to respond but discovered that there is no documentation in the employee file to support a protest? Or discovered that your disciplinary process was never followed and you cannot protest the claim – even though the employee should not be receiving unemployment? Frustrating isn’t it.
With high cost of unemployment to employers, you really can’t afford to pay claims where the claimant should not qualify, and more often than not, you do pay! Most employers only win about half of the claims they protest and many employers don’t protest all of the UI claims they should because they think they can’t win.
What can be done to fix this problem? Well, the list of areas that may need fixing can be quite lengthy, but one area that you should be looking at is management training. Make sure your managers are trained in how to manage your staff properly and in how to properly follow employment law (and unemployment law).
3 areas in which you should focus:
There are numerous areas where you should focus your training efforts including:
Each of these topics affect your unemployment program success or failure – and whether you lower your UI costs. Invest the time and money into training and you will see a solid return on that investment in many areas of your operations, including unemployment costs – you likely will find it was worth the effort!
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