Performance improvement plans (PIPs) are best suited for performance issues, such as an employee not hitting their required ...

Harold M. Schwarz, Attorney, Litigation and Employment Group, Stark & Knoll Co., L.P.A. When employers don’t consistently follow their guidelines when disciplining or terminating employees, they may ...

Even the most harmonious companies may sometimes experience employee misconduct, unacceptable behavior or poor performance. While these situations can be awkward and uncomfortable, ignoring them and ...

Corrective actions, whether informal or formal, must depend upon the nature, consequence(s), or potential consequence(s) of the employee's conduct or performance and surrounding circumstances and ...

Ideally, your staff is always professional and never acts in a way that requires they be reprimanded. However, that isn’t always the case for business owners. Some forms of behavior require immediate ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...