You have been a director of human resources in California for 7 years now. Your firm has just completed an acquisition of a new operations group in Texas that has more employees working at it than your California operations, so you have overnight more than doubled in size. You just got your hands on their current employee handbook and are comparing it to the one you recently updated in California. While the California handbook has a policy that bans firearms from all work locations, the Texas handbook is silent on the issue. Another difference is California’s handbook states a zero-tolerance... Show more

You have been a director of human resources in California for 7 years now. Your firm has just completed an acquisition of a new operations group in Texas that has more employees working at it than your California operations, so you have overnight more than doubled in size. You just got your hands on their current employee handbook and are comparing it to the one you recently updated in California. While the California handbook has a policy that bans firearms from all work locations, the Texas handbook is silent on the issue. Another difference is California’s handbook states a zero-tolerance policy for any violence, and again the Texas handbook is silent.

As you FaceTime with the local human resources manager prior to your planned trip to Texas next week, Serena tells you about an operations technician, Martin, who was terminated last week for making threats toward a co-worker as they were both interested in the same woman who is the company’s receptionist.

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