HR Documentation 101: How to Produce High Quality, Defensible Employment Documentation
OVERVIEW Employers have many obligations to their employees today and management techniques do not always have an answer for the challenges managers and HR face. Efforts by employers to manage, even intervene and problem solve often become convoluted. Therefore, documentation might be the only factor that shows an employer in good faith tried to live up to all their legal obligations to their employees and in the case of complaints was a fair, non-discriminatory employer. Wherever there are people, there are problems, and those problems often turn into HR compliance issues . Consequently, everyone: trainer, advisor, user and reviewer of records need to be trained in the best practices for documenting so they know how to document, when, what, how, and why to document, and just as importantly, how to not document. employment documentation WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND What an employer does document, what it does not document and the manner of use of the documentation are critica...