Tag: confidentiality

New Hawaii Law Protects Domestic, Sexual Violence Victims from Discrimination

By HR Hero Dec 15, 2011 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Dec 15, 2011

By David Banks Hawaii’s Act 206, which provides employment protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence, becomes effective January 1, 2012. Hawaii is one of only five states to enact a law protecting victims of domestic and sexual violence. Among other things, the Act: prohibits discrimination on the basis of domestic or sexual violence […]

Ministers in the Workplace

By arell Feb 8, 2008 HR Hero Line

Updated: Feb 8, 2008

Normally, employees take their work-related problems to HR departments. They may, for personal problems, bend the ear of a concerned manager or supervisor. More and more, however, employers have begun to use what they believe to be an even better approach to the needs of their employees: corporate chaplains. In an effort to create the […]