Employment practices liability (EPL) insurance is a policy used to cover your risks due to some of the most common employment-related lawsuits, including the following:
· Wrongful termination: The discharge of an employee for invalid reasons.
· Discrimination: The denial of equal treatment to employees who are members of a protected class.
· Sexual harassment: Subjecting an employee to unwelcome sexual advances, obscene or offensive remarks, or the failure to stop such behavior.
EPL works to provide the necessary resources to defend your company against a lawsuit or to pay for a claim. To best understand how to cover your EPL risks, it’s important to know the potential sources:
· Recruitment practices
· Annual conduct reviews
· Employment applications
· Enforcing performance policies
· Employment offers
· Termination
· Employee orientation process
· Improper documentation of the items listed above