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PSA: Hire a lawyer to draft your employment agreements. Otherwise, you may end up like this.
And by “this,” I mean spending a lot more on lawyers to defend a breach of contract claim from a former employee who claims that the employment agreement she signed promised a guaranteed year of employment.
Don’t discriminate. (But, if you do, don’t make it THIS EASY for the EEOC to nail you for it.)
I have a lot of respect for human resource professionals. It’s not easy being in HR. Or so I hear.
(No one has ever confused me with someone who put the “human” in human resources. I can be more of a, shall we say, jerk.) Continue reading
Is it legal to fire over 900 employees at once over Zoom?
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News of a New York-based online mortgage lender’s CEO terminating over 900 employees with no notice on a three-minute Zoom call has been dominating my Google Alerts recently. Continue reading
And now ALL of the federal COVID-19 mandates for private sector employers are STAYED
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(For private sector employers, at least.) Continue reading
It turns out that women filming gifts of sex toys to male colleagues is not ok in Australia
Almost everything I know about Australia comes from The Simpsons. Continue reading
In plain English, here’s why the government can’t force healthcare workers to get COVID-19 shots
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Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate (the “CMS Rule”). The CMS Rule requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by December 6, 2021, and the second vaccine by January 4, 2022. Otherwise, the government can withhold Medicare and Medicare funding.
Surely, CMS has a strong interest in having safe healthcare facilities? So, why then did a federal judge forbid enforcement of the CMS Rule in all 50 states? Continue reading
A federal court has blocked the government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors
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So much for that glass being half-full. For the government’s vaccine mandates, things are going from bad to — ah, you can read this sign.
Yesterday, a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate. I’ll detail that tomorrow.
Today, I’ve got news on the big hit that the Executive Order mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for employees of certain federal contractors (the “Contactor EO”) just took. Continue reading