"You're Being Served!" -- Legal Threats to Employers is the Focus of April 25 Snelling Live Internet Chat Room.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2000 Snelling Snelling can refer to: People
Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Chat Room Moderated by Expert on Legal Threats and Employee Policy Challenges to Employers Workplace legal threats and issues that can lead to lawsuits will be the focus of Snelling Personnel Service's April live Internet chat room to be held Tuesday Tuesday: see week. , April 25, 2000, at 1:30 P.M. eastern time. To help employers avoid the challenge, "You're being served!," the chat room, will examine legal workplace issues ranging from abusive Tending to deceive; practicing abuse; prone to ill-treat by coarse, insulting words or harmful acts. Using ill treatment; injurious, improper, hurtful, offensive, reproachful. e-mail practices, sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. and employer-employee dissension, to an update on applying standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. . The chat room will be moderated by attorney Barbara A. McAninch, vice president and general counsel of Snelling Personnel, and a nationally recognized expert on workplace legal issues who recently spoke on this topic at the National Forum for Women Corporate Counsel. "Companies must stay on top of these new issues to avoid lengthy litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , increased legal costs, employee discontent and staff retention problems," McAninch says. The April chat room is the latest of a series of monthly chat room discussions created by Snelling Personnel Services in cooperation with the Society of Human Resource Management. To access the discussion or to view an archive of past chat room sessions, as well as future topics, log on to: www.snelling.com/chat. "The monthly Snelling chat room is an effective forum for HR professionals to discuss a range of issues of growing significance for their companies," said Tim Loncharich, Chairman and President of Snelling Personnel Services. Each month Snelling's "HR Issues & Answers" chat room features experts discussing a wide range of topics and offering advice on human resource issues. Snelling Personnel Services, based in Dallas, specializes in providing temporary, temp-to-hire and career placement opportunities to companies in all industries. There are more than 330 Snelling locations across the country. Snelling's Web site can be accessed at www.snelling.com. |
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