Lynne Curry writes a weekly column on workplace issues. She is author of “Solutions” and “Beating the Workplace Bully” and workplacecoachblog.com. Curry is president of Communication Works Inc. Send your questions to her at workplacecoachblog.com/ask-a-coach or follow her on Twitter @lynnecurry10.
Workplace advice: Private sector employers can legally fire employees who participated in the illegal Capitol invasion; many have already done so. But first, you’ll need to investigate what actually happened.
Workplace advice: Here’s how a company should proceed when considering requiring employees get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Workplace advice: When your coach said, “you can do more,” you dug deep into yourself and accomplished results beyond those you had believed possible. Coaches help players optimize their performance. Think like a coach.
Workplace advice: To change the situation, someone would have to risk his or her job and work upward through two management layers to gain the ear of the senior manager who could make a difference. Is it even worth trying?
In skip-level meetings, company leaders connect with employees who report to the managers under them. You invite these employees to share thoughts and concerns, to ask you questions about anything, and you ask them questions.
Workplace advice: Guidelines from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission state that employers can enforce mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies - with certain exceptions and caveats.
Workplace advice: Because of community and asymptomatic spread, it may be difficult if not impossible for an employee to establish that the exposure occurred at work.
Workplace advice: When the first claim arrived, we honored it. Word spread through our workforce, and more claims arrived.
Workplace advice: This isn’t the first time this employee has made up a story to get what he wants. If we call him in to work tomorrow and he doesn’t show up, can we terminate him?
Workplace advice: I reminded our team that one exposure could give any of us COVID, and that eating would require removing masks. I quoted the rising COVID numbers. I don’t think it made a difference.
Workplace advice: We worry that some employees don’t monitor physical distancing in their off time. All it would take is one employee getting COVID-19 and infecting others to shut us down.
Workplace advice: One is a micromanager. The other favors free rein until employees go too far.
