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In what I hope does not become a weekly feature here at The Employer Handbook, it’s time to update the readers on some new laws that NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed last week. Continue reading
Pat yourselves on the back, employers. EEOC Charges dipped to a new 27-year low!!!📉
I’m sorry if you were expecting wild stories of employee shenanigans today. Yesterday, I asked for your stories, and I got nothin’! Y’all must work in the most compliant workplaces in America.
Speaking of which… Continue reading
Remember when Barstool Sports mocked unionization on Twitter? How do you think that ended?
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I’m guessing that the white flag may have been a bit of a spoiler. Continue reading
Guess which state just became the first to require severance following a mass layoff?
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At this point, that’s kinda like asking which day of the week ends in a “y”?
Yep, New Jersey has gone and done it again. Continue reading
Lawsuit: Does the ADA require an adult film website to accommodate a deaf individual by closed captioning the videos?
In 2020, the Americans with Disabilities Act turns 30. President George H.W. Bush signed it into law in 1990 to ensure civil rights for individuals with disabilities. Chia-Yi Hou at The Hill published a nice 30-year ADA recap here.
The “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing” plaintiff lost her discrimination case. Go figure.
It’s bad enough when a federal judge refers to a plaintiff-employee’s behavior towards her manager as “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing.” And, I apologize that I didn’t have enough room in the title of this blog post to mention the plaintiff’s profanity and fighting at work, or her arrests for drunk driving and drug possession.
So, you’d think that the plaintiff would cut and run after the district court dismissed her claims for pregnancy, sex, race, and religious discrimination claims. But, the plaintiff who referred to herself at work as “crazy” and “psycho” decided to appeal to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
And how do you think that went for the plaintiff? Continue reading
A bipartisan federal bill proposes to require nursing mom protections for all female employees.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide new moms with reasonable break time and a private place to pump breastmilk.
Well, not all new moms; just the non-exempt workers; i.e., the overtime-eligible employees. But, new bipartisan legislation proposed last week in the Senate will change all that. Continue reading
At last. At long last, New Jersey has finalized its regulations supporting its Earned Sick Leave Law
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Late in October 2018, New Jersey’s Earned Sick Leave Law (ESLL) took effect. Under the ESLL, employees can accrue one hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 in a year. Continue reading
A customer’s preference for an employee of a certain gender usually does not justify sex discrimination — even at a strip club.
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Hypothetically, if I were to go to a gentlemen’s club, I would expect to see women dancing on stage for money. That’s what goes on there, I’m told. Continue reading