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 ...
Can employees sue in tribal court when they are defamed?
Yes. Last month a tribal court stated that an employee of the tribe could sue when a pamphlet was ...
Should employment at-will be part of a supervisor’s typical conversation with an employee?
Answer: No. As a general rule directors, managers and supervisors should not discuss employees’ at-will status with employees they ...
Leadership
Lots of people like the convenience, selection and efficiency of buying things from Amazon. You know Amazon, the Seattle ...
22 Ways to Keep Human Resources Out of Trouble
How can the Tribe actively minimize liability to employee claims and what role can the human resources team serve? ...
Striving to Understand Sexual Harassment
In harassment, discrimination and bullying training, after recognizing I have significant room for improvement, I ask managers to place ...
Think a Second Time About Discrimination in the Workplace
All responsible tribal employers take unlawful discrimination seriously by defining those characteristics which will not be utilized in making ...
Will there be an increase in gender based discrimination claims?
Is harassment based on a failure to conform to gender stereotypes a potential legal claim? In the December 2013 ...
Addressing retaliation in the workplace
Earlier this year the United States Supreme Court ruled that when an employee filed sex discrimination charges against her ...
What is, and is not, a hostile work environment?
Hostile work environment is frequently misunderstood by employees. Employees working for tribal employers are just as confused as employees ...
Sexual Harassment Best Practices
The spotlight on sexual harassment has generated an abundance of employer introspection. For tribal employers, what should that introspection ...
Are grumpy employees creating a hostile work environment which is actionable under the law?
Grumpy workers (even hostile workers) do not necessarily create the circumstances for an employment related court action. On the ...
Why is specificity necessary for tribes to define equal opportunity in employment?
Unless modified through a compact, agreement or waiver, federal anti-discrimination law does not apply to on-reservation tribal employment practices. ...
