About On the Job Solutions

For nearly thirty years as a Massachusetts lawyer, I represented employees in court and before administrative agencies, motivated by my personal commitment to ending discrimination in employment. Although I often obtained redress to individual wrongs, I was repeatedly disappointed by the high cost of litigation, financially and emotionally. I was disappointed by litigation's inefficiency as a tool for improving conditions in the workplace. Again and again, I was struck by how counter-productive litigation can be. Although it is rare that one party is all right and the other all wrong, litigation is set up as a zero-sum game in which there is one winner and one loser.  In the final analysis, however, it's lose-lose. nobody wins when avoidable workplace conflict turns employees into adversaries of the employer.

 

Most adults in the United States spend a considerable portion of their lives in the workplace. When the employment relationship breaks down because of the apparent unfairness of what is perceived to be discriminatory behavior, employees suffer profoundly. From the employer’s perspective, the bottom line suffers from the discord generated by discrimination-related issues among employees, from the loss of competent employees, from the costs of defending against claims of discrimination, from the negative public attention directed to accusations of discrimination.

There is a better way:  On the Job Solutions will help a few New England employers avoid costly lawsuits and lost productivity from workplace discord through a comprehensive approach which includes auditing organizational policies for compliance with the requirements of federal and state laws, training employees to understand and follow those policies and providing workplace mediation to resolve misunderstanding before it turns employers and employees into legal adversaries. Here is a win-win solution to the legal requirements of non-discrimination.

 

Certified by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination for completion of its “Train the Trainer Program" on "Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace," "Preventing Harassment in the Workplace,"  and "Conducting Internal Discrimination Complaint Investigations," Robert LeRoux Hernandez will tailor packages to meet your specific needs or offer consultation on an as-needed basis. Contact him at 617-969-1688 or rlh@OnTheJobSolutions.com