Will your workers sue you? State-by-State risks and strategic responses

Every day, managers face the risk of lawsuits being filed by their workers. Lawsuits are disruptive, time consuming, expensive, and often completely unexpected/unanticipated. To better prepare for this undesirable occurrence, managers must understand the risks involved. Three metrics—frequency, seve...

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Published in:Business horizons Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 65 - 79
Main Author: Posthuma, Richard A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Greenwich Elsevier Inc 2012
Elsevier
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:
Employee lawsuits
Employment practices
Employment practices liability
Lawsuits
Litigation
Loss exposure
Managers
Risk management
Studies
Workplace litigation
Employee lawsuits
Employment practices liability
Workplace litigation
Loss exposure
Lawsuits
ISSN:0007-6813, 1873-6068
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Summary:Every day, managers face the risk of lawsuits being filed by their workers. Lawsuits are disruptive, time consuming, expensive, and often completely unexpected/unanticipated. To better prepare for this undesirable occurrence, managers must understand the risks involved. Three metrics—frequency, severity, and range—elucidate the risks of employment lawsuits and illustrate how these may vary from one state to the next. Risk management tactics can be deployed strategically to handle the variety of risk present in various locations. These tactics create a defense-in-depth strategy with layered multiple-hurdles to stymie employee depletion of corporate assets. Rather than live in perpetual fear, employers can more successfully manage the risks of worker lawsuits.
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ISSN:0007-6813
1873-6068
DOI:10.1016/j.bushor.2011.09.004