What is Your Proactive Plan for 2026?
As 2026 is near, now is the time to discuss whether your department will improve or maintain its status quo. ...
Employees Have a Duty to Cooperate
Polite people sometimes refer to certain employees as being stubborn as a mule. Less polite people translate stubborn as a ...
Employee Retention Questions to Ask
This summer a newspaper article caught my attention regarding employee retention and it surprised me in a couple ways that ...
Investigations Training
There is interest in my two-day Investigations Training. I have tentatively scheduled the training for April 22 and 23, 2021 ...
NNAHRA Plus Fall Training
NNAHRA I have the privilege of working with the dedicated NNAHRA team this week in preparation for the NNAHRA Conference ...
Gratitude & Opportunities
A thank you, a book, investigations, hearings and more articles. First and foremost, I continue to be exceedingly grateful to ...
Three Questions Returning Employees
In this edition three questions are addressed which are relevant to employees returning to work for tribal governments, casinos and ...
Can a state worker’s compensation court hear a dispute involving an injury incurred by a worker while assisting with the expansion of an on-reservation casino?
Recently, the Minnesota Supreme Court said that Minnesota worker's compensation courts have the power (jurisdiction) to hear disputes when ...
Do nonunion employees possess Weingarten rights?
Weingarten is a city in southern Germany, a famous piano player, and a grocery store dispute generating a 1975 ...
What are your answers to 18 questions regarding termination?
As a human resources employee, tribal council member or department director, have you witnessed an employee termination and thought ...
Should tribal employers define what is contained in a personnel file?
Yes. Defining the required contents of personnel files is beneficial to tribal employers for numerous reasons. First, by defining ...
Personal Conduct Policy
When employers define workplace rules through employee handbooks and policy manuals there are some rules included which reach beyond ...
Leadership
There are relevant questions of leadership in the news everyday. Tribal leaders and powerful citizen voices are challenging the ...
What are the ingredients of a job description which exceeds expectations?
Here are the dozen reasons to update job descriptions to the reality of the workplace in 2016. 1. Checklist ...
What Best Practices Define Successful Investigations of Employee Conduct?
Tribal employers define workplace rules with the expectation that employees will follow the rules and in most instances good ...
Should human resources directors be part of the executive team?
On the tribal government side of the street, the executive team is frequently comprised of the tribal administrator, assistant ...
10 Things HR Needs to Know About Gaming
Human Resources needs to know a lot about all of the acronyms (FLSA, FMLA, NLRA and more) and the ...
Employees Playing Football
The NFL ended its season with an exciting Super Bowl proving the league continues to popular, but some of ...
What is the role of casino employer in performing due diligence in evaluating prospective employees?
Where a clear and limited delegation of authority is granted to the gaming commission, the employment function is the ...
How to Best Document Employee Behavior?
The line between good documentation which serves the employer’s interests and documentation which does not is driven by numerous ...
