A panel of experts showed about 160 attendees how to stay out of legal trouble by documenting all of their personnel decisions at NJBIA's Hot Legal Topics for Employers seminar October 25 at the Holiday Inn Tinton Falls.

They covered some of the pitfalls that employers run into in hiring or firing employees and putting together employee handbooks, as well as complying with wage and hour laws and protecting themselves against workplace harassment lawsuits.

The key: properly document everything that pertains to an employment decision. Providing proper documentation, for instance by documenting the reason for a promotion or the cause of disciplinary action, can make all the difference in a subsequent legal challenge. 

The seminar detailed not only the importance of creating a paper trail for such decisions, but also the need to periodically review business policies to ensure that managers and employees follow them correctly.

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