In each of our quarterly webinars, we conduct a series of polls to see what’s really going on out there in the wonderful world of work.

Today’s topic: EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION.

We asked our 3,423 attendees at last week’s webinar this question:

Not exactly the prettiest picture.

Once again, far more employers are seeing an increase — versus a decrease — in claims. The percentage reporting an increase (47%) was up 20% over last quarter and was nearly fourteen times the number of those reporting a decrease (4%). Yikes.

To get at your greatest source of pain, we also asked this question:

Surging to the top this quarter for the first time in awhile was Terminations, with nearly a third of the votes. Others receiving double-digit votes included Wage & Hour (18%), Medical Issues (16%) and Investigations (12%).

So, What Should Employers Do?

Unfortunately, the increase in litigation is showing absolutely no signs of letting up. That means it’s more important than ever to (1) know the law and (2) take action on key risk areas immediately.

We discussed a variety of ways to achieve those goals in our webinar. Here’s the replay and SlideShare if you didn’t get a chance to join us.

And here’s our official 2012 Employment Law Tool Box, packed with dozens of tools to reduce your headaches and keep you out of court. It includes termination tips, an investigation checklist, cheat sheets on wage and hour and medical leave laws and much much much more.

More Tomorrow

Please join us tomorrow when we’ll discuss SOCIAL MEDIA @ WORK.

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