We serve as your trusted legal advisors as you navigate workplace challenges, and we help you to continuously improve your workplace culture to prevent problems before they arise. We provide training to ensure your compliance with federal and California employment law. This can include: recruitment, hiring, onboarding, performance management, harassment prevention, dispute resolution, investigations, separations, and more. Whatever your need, Brightside Consulting APC is your trusted partner. From entry-level employees to the C-suite, we deliver services tailored to your needs.
Over her career, founding attorney Susanna Matingou has analyzed hundreds of workplace disputes and organizations. An emergent theme is that many workplace challenges arise from underlying emotional truths that employees bring to a situation.
Based on this understanding, we augment our legal and business recommendations by incorporating theories of social psychology from change-makers like NYU professor Jonathan Haidt. For example, did you know that for best results in challenging interactions, you want to “talk to the elephant”? The elephant represents our emotional side – vast, powerful, and often driven by instinct. In comparison, the rider, perched on the back of the elephant, symbolizes our rational mind – analytical, planning, but small relative to the enormous elephant. (See The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.) Haidt’s metaphor of “talking to the elephant” describes the need to address the emotional components of a person’s position in addition to presenting hard facts and logic.
California Employment Law Compliance Audit. Savvy employers rely on our expert audit to assess their compliance with California’s ever-changing employment law landscape. We conduct remote or onsite audits by assessing your policies and procedures, documentation, training, employee handbooks, wage and hour policies, pay stubs, performance management, violence prevention program, illness and injury prevention plan (IIPP), separation procedures, and more. Along the way, we provide resources and referrals to help your company quickly address any gaps, minimize your legal risks and costs, and achieve positive culture shifts.