Expert HR management and administration for small and mid-sized businesses.
Businesses faced with serious HR problems experience a drain on time, employee morale, and even profitability. The following are just a few of the HR issues we have solved for our clients. Some are everyday administrative matters, others require professional knowledge, and even more demand strategic expertise. NovationHR’s Human Resources experience is built from our hands-on management of client relationships. Through our holistic approach we have created positive results for companies of all sizes and in a wide range of industries.
It is a fact that HR situations like these have, can or will arise in your business. Your best strategy is to be prepared.
One of your most productive sales managers has an obvious problem with drugs and gambling. His performance is suffering and he is beginning to take unexplained days off work.
Human resource management:
You learn that your Sales Manager has been telling sexist jokes that demean women in the weekly sales meetings. A female Customer Service Manager has complained about the jokes in the past and no one has done anything about it. After a few months she quits and files a formal sexual harassment claim.
Human resource management:
Employees in your production department are protesting, in growing numbers, against the third shift supervisor’s management style by wearing black armbands.
Human resource management:
Two of your employees are having an affair – the married Vice President of Sales and a sales representative. Everyone in the department is aware of the relationship and a few employees have complained about favoritism. Additionally, you fear that there will be disruptions in the work environment when the affair ends.
Human resource management:
Your production department receives a weekly bonus based on volume. Some of your employees claim that their overtime is not being calculated correctly and file a class-action lawsuit. You discover that your long-term payroll clerk has not correctly incorporated the bonuses into employee’s overtime rates for the last five years.
Human resource management:
One of your most reliable and hard working office employees consistently wears inappropriate clothing to work and has poor hygiene.
Human resource management:
A production worker has a condition that allows him to take intermittent FMLA leave. You believe he is abusing the system because you notice that he consistently takes every other Friday off. However, he always has the proper documentation to cover his absences.
Human resource management:
An employee in your warehouse has suffered a work related injury, which has led to a permanent disability. Profitability demands a layoff in this department. So, you terminate the disabled worker because he is the least flexible. He then sues you for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Human resource management:
A group of engineers in your design department are devout Christians. A new employee claims to be a Satanist and begins to receive verbal threats. As a result, both the new employee and the group of engineers want someone terminated.
Human resource management:
One of your clerical employees falls in the production area and suffers a compound fracture of the left arm. She is suing for pain and suffering because it took over 15 minutes for someone to call an ambulance after her fall.
Human resource management:
One of your employees is arrested over the weekend for a parole violation. He calls Monday morning and asks you to fax his timesheet to jail so that he can sign off on his hours worked last week.
Human resource management:
An employee is terminated on Friday afternoon and you forgot to make yourself a note to send out his COBRA letter.
Human resource management:
There is an unexpected dip in sales and you are forced to make what you hope will be short-term changes in the form of organizational restructuring. After a few months of reduced demand, you determine that your best option is to merge with a mid-size competitor.
Human resource management: