Employee Relations

_ How long should a last chance agreement last? Should it be a deadline like PIP to improve performance?  The employee had successfully completed PIP a few months ago and now performance is an issue again. Thanks.

​Hi. Is there a benchmark or rule of thumb that you use when determining how much to spend for employee team building? For example we spend x% on benefits as related to an employees compensation. We are looking at our spend on teambuilding, strategy meetings, ...

_ having previously worked with unions, the next step should be they file a formal grievance and them you follow the steps in the CBA.  To say they are going to schedule a meeting with the President (unless that is the outline in the CBA), he/she should ...

We  are in the process of revising our Attendance Policy and was wondering if anyone could share their Disciplinary Action associated with tardies, absences, no call now shows, etc.   Ours is currently a bit too strict with one minute being late and receiving ...

Don't include that time if they weren't required to perform work during that timeframe.  For example - if its Christmas break and the school is closed I wouldn't include that in FMLA time.  If a teacher missed an in-service day (where we were doing ...