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If I discover an employee on a long and obviously non-business-related phone call, can I interrupt and tell the employee to hang up? Our policy does not explicitly prohibit personal calls, but is there some way to discourage them? — Anonymous
Can you clarify for me what a probationary period means in terms of our legal rights as an employer? I thought that if we had a 90-day probationary period, that meant we could easily terminate a new employee without any legal hassles. But I went to a conference, and the speaker said that a) we […]
Does an employer have the right to open mail sent to a particular employee if it is sent to the employer’s address? — Andy