How to Avoid an Employee Lawsuit
Top ten policies that will guarantee you lose in an employment lawsuit:
- Fire all employees over the age of 40 to have a younger and hipper look in the office for your patients.
- Fire anyone at anytime because all my employees are “at-will.”
- Don’t address infractions and improper work practice until you are firing the employee.
- Pay no one overtime because they are all exempt under the law.
- Show nepotism. Do not be consistent in the hiring, discipline and firing practices because no one will catch on to it.
- Be quick to terminate employees who obviously have health problems.
- Write nothing down because they will use it against me. Besides, a jury will believe me, the doctor, over the employee.
- I do not have to worry about discrimination or harassment suit because my handbook has an equal employment policy in it somewhere.
- I do not need an employee handbook because I am a small office and we’re going to handle under a “family style business.”
- I terminated that employee for “cause” so I can tell all the other doctors offices about what the employee did.
