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Listener Q&A...We Answer Your Questions! - Remote Workers, FMLA, and Age Discrimination, Oh My!

John Thalheimer, MS and Chuck Simikian, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

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Welcome to the first Listener Q&A episode! Today, Chuck and John take on a batch of listener questions:

  1. How do you deal with an employee who refuses to work alone with a member of the opposite sex citing religious convictions?
  2. Any ideas how to bring an Admin out of her shell? I hesitate to use the word anti-social, but I'm at my wits end trying to deal with her.
  3. If someone is an exempt employee, can they ask to be switched to non-exempt? Does the employer need to honor their request?

Send in your own questions to have the team talk about it by emailing us at info@hrstoriespodcast.com.

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