Do you know how many states are "at will" states? Means that you can be fired for any reason whatsoever.
Know how many people have complained to an HR department, and then subsequently been fired not too long afterward? Even WITH "whistleblower" laws in effect? The number would astound us I assure you. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > > HR is there for the company, not the employee. > > If you come to HR and tell them someone is harassing you, and they do > nothing about it, you can sue the crap out of the company. They may > be employed by the company, but they are not strictly there on the > company's behalf. They are also advocates of the employees and as > Hatton said, they are there to enforce compliance with the law as > well. > > I would always go to HR before a union. unless you are reporting an HR > employee's misbehavior I guess. Even then I would just go above HR to > someone higher up about it. > > -Cameron > > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
