With only a week until Thanksgiving, it’s time to start planning for the holidays (if you haven’t already). The holiday season is filled with opportunities to celebrate and thank employees for their hard work. But those opportunities can turn into headaches if you aren’t careful. That’s why this post is the first in a series of articles meant to help you avoid mistakes that can ruin holiday cheer.

Over the next two months, you will see articles on topics from minimizing risks of the holiday office party, conflicting time-off requests, reasonable religious accommodations, conducting a New Year’s review, and holiday bonuses that can cause problems with an employee’s rate of pay.

To start you off, here is a list of all the past holiday-related Hero Line articles:

• Gift-Giving Policies for the Workplace

• Religious Time-Off Requests: Accommodation vs. Productivity and Fairness

• Productivity got run over by a reindeer

• Wishing you a litigation-free office party

• Treat Holidays with Care to Avoid Religious Discrimination, Harassment

• Are your employees using your computers to work or Christmas shop?

• The truth about alcohol at office parties

• ‘Tis the season to hire seasonal workers

• December dilemna: Do’s and don’ts

• International Day: Give thanks and decrease turnover

• Holidays in the workplace: How to navigate the tricky intersection of religion, celebration, and bonuses (White Paper)

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