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Our Proactive Harassment, Injury & Union Prevention Programs are Better Than Your Current Ones
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Let me get right to the point: Our proactive harassment prevention, injury reduction & union avoidance programs are better than your current ones (if you even have them).
We have created a proactive program that effectively involves salary/office as well as floor/line/plant/hourly employees.
Our proactive program was adopted at a company with 15 steel processing plants and 1,500 employees, of which 1,200 are on industrial plant floors.
You would expect this type of organization to be involved with several harassment lawsuits per year. With a typical settlement likely to be in excess of $100,000 and the typical defense attorney fees to be an even higher amount, the unnecessary expense is substantial.
However, since 1999, this organization has experienced no employment-related lawsuits.
Throw into the mix a diverse workforce (various religions, races, and national origins), and add women working on the plant floor, the record becomes even more impressive.
Even more incredible is that these plants are not limited to traditionally non-litigious locations, but the largest plants are in Detroit, Cleveland, northern Indiana, and Ohio.
This organization also had two of its plants vote in a union in 1995. From 1998 to 1999, unions also obtained enough cards for an election to be held in two additional plants. In 1999, this organization won the election in one plant, the union withdrew before the election in the other, and the employees decertified one of the 1995 elected unions. This was all done at great expense, not only in dollars, but also in employee time, productivity, and morale.
Since 1999, when the proactive union avoidance program was adopted, this organization has been subjected to no union card campaigns.
In 1999, this organization recorded 300 workers compensation claims. Ten years later, with 50% more employees, there were less than 70 claims filed. That's over 400 injuries that did not happen. Real live people that went home to their families intact able to work the next day.
Think about it: Every dollar spent defending harassment claims, winning union elections or paying out workers compensation claims are wasted. The money used for these non-value-added purposes could be used instead for expansion, technological improvements, wages, incentive bonuses, or just plain old financial survival.
How is this done: Using engaging imagery, attendees feel what it is like to be the victim of harassment. Salaried personnel are shown that it is in their personal best interest to address a potential harassment situation even when no one is complaining. Information, persuasion and reasoning are the most effective means for obtaining ownership in any policy. Workshops are conducted on Management Skills Training (Responsibility, Inclusion, Treatment, Attitude and Atmosphere) for supervisors.
These proactive programs will improve your organization's bottom line by
(a) creating a more pleasant and productive work environment, (b) preventing your employees from being subjected to harassment, forced into a union or injured and (c) significantly reducing, if not, eliminate wasted expenses such as defense attorney fees, lawsuit settlement costs, union campaign consultant charges, labor attorney fees for collective bargaining negotiation and defense of arbitrations.
How better to demonstrate that you truly care about your employees than to adopt this proactive prevention program?
John Baumann graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management and earned his Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School. In his 23-year career, has passed the bar and practiced in Texas, Louisiana and New Jersey before becoming General Counsel of a Nasdaq listed corporation headquartered in Kentucky. Since 2006, Professor Baumann has taught at the University of Louisville School of Business.
Email us at: johnbaumannesq@yahoo.com
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