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With more co-sponsors than ever and huge corporate support, will Congress finally vote to ban LGBT discrimination?
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There is a sure-fire way to avoid the uncertainty of when and how the Supreme Court may — legal jargon in 3…2…1… — adjudicate LGBT rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
And that’s to pass a law making LGBT discrimination at work unlawful.
Speaking of which… Continue reading
NJ is now THIS CLOSE to legalizing recreational marijuana. Here’s what that means for employers.
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Three HR lessons from a supervisor’s alleged knuckle-dragging savagery.
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On International Women’s Day, the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team sued U.S. Soccer to demand equal pay.
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But, can the plaintiffs prevail? Continue reading
BREAKING-ish, sorta, not really. Yeah, you knew this was coming. The DOL officially announces overtime changes.
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Before all the Facebook creepiness, pukey-poopy emojis, and gushing over my awesome law firm, I foreshadowed some changes from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules.
Yesterday, the DOL put a ring on it and made it official. Continue reading
Hey Eric! Can I spy on my former employee’s Facebook messenger account?
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Asking for a friend, of course. Continue reading
Your EEO-1 will now take 3.4 hours longer to complete
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So glad you asked. I’ll tell you all about my first year at FisherBroyles, the largest cloud-based law firm in the world.
“Eric, congratulations on the new gig with Fisher — it’s FisherBroyles, right?” they said with scrunched, skeptical faces that didn’t quite match their words of encouragement.
I got a lot of that when, after 12 years at a large, traditional law firm, I catapulted to the first and largest full-service cloud-based law firm in the world.
‘Catapulted’ is intentional. Sure, you can soar to new heights. But, the ultimate impact can be hard and messy.
So, how has the first year of practice been at FisherBroyles? Continue reading
New overtime rules are coming (yes, really this time!). Here are eight things employers need to know to prepare.
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Remember that f**king fire drill?
Back in 2016, the United States Department of Labor proposed a rule that would have made millions of workers eligible to earn overtime for the first time by raising the salary-level that exempts certain individuals from overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
And employers panicked. Many businesses converted salaried employees to hourly. Others got raises. Some received both. It was a mess. The only happy people were the employment lawyers.
But, then a federal judge in Texas entered a nationwide injunction against the proposed DOL rule, and everything went away, except those raises and pay changes that you could exactly stuff back into the tube of toothpaste.
Welcome to Round Two