Dashboard: Can You Fire Employees Who Won’t Return to the Office?

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 12:52 p.m.

This week, Gene Marks warns business owners that the National Labor Relations Board has taken an action that could make it harder to fire employees who won’t come back to the office. But is that really the case? Gene’s also concerned about a new rule proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that makes it even more important that business owners review their policies and training regarding harassment of employees. And then Gene reviews the case of an employee who filed some relatively minor misrepresentations in an expense report and then lied about it. Should the employee be fired?