Whether a department of many, or just one, your job as an HR professional has you juggling many balls. You’re running an open enrollment, conducting a workplace investigation, recruiting, wage-setting. Cot’ damn, you’re busy! To get those tasks done, you’d better have the gift of gab. Or not. Is verbal…
Five minutes ago, after taking the obligatory selfies and between games of Candy Crush, one of your employees texted (because, calling in, as if!) from an Ebola quarantine tent to alert you that she will be out of work for 21 days, while under observation for Ebola. As an employer,…
I’ll be at the SHRM Lehigh Valley Annual Conference today presenting “What’s Hot at the EEOC…and How to Avoid Getting Burned!” with the EEOC’s Mary Tiernan. If you’re at the conference, stop by with pizza and beer and say hello with pizza and beer. However, if you can’t make it,…
See that lede right there! That’s journalism, baby! After the jump, let’s talk about what it means to have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act. * * * In Wilson v. Iron Tiger Logistics, the plaintiff, a truck driver, developed frostbite on a bunch of fingers…
Seems one employer may not have received the memo. Now, the EEOC is taking aim. More on this and some tips for employers to avoid pregnancy-accommodation traps, after the jump… * * * Over the summer, the EEOC issued new guidance on accommodating pregnant employees. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act doesn’t…
That ain’t legal, yo. I’ll tell you why after the jump… * * * @Eric_B_Meyer, any thoughts to share on this one? Woman w/cancer diagnosis is fired & the boss thought he was helping http://t.co/980Bl1scjF — MarySchaefer (@MarySchaefer) September 17, 2014 Yeah, Mary, I’ve got some thoughts. Let’s assume that…
Congratulations! Your fitness-for-duty employee medical examinations are job-related or consistent with business necessity. So, they pass muster under the Americans with Disabilities Act. But, what about the medical information you request from employees in connection with those exams? Oh yeah, there’s that too… Ask for too much info and you…
Hey, I don’t make this stuff up. I just blog about it. More after the jump… * * * The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that employers provide reasonable accommodation to employees with disabilities when doing so will allow them to perform the essential functions of their job. In Assaturian…
Filed under: duh! More on this one after the jump… * * * Let’s assume that you have an employee who commits a terminable offense. For example, in Martins v. Rhode Island Hospital, surveillance cameras and the Hospital’s employee ID swipe system suggested that Martins left work for approximately four…
How do you think that worked out? (I’ve got a pretty good guess too). After the jump, let’s see if we’re right. * * * In EEOC v. Midwest Regional Medical Center, LLC (yes, the employer-defendant was a friggin’ hospital!!!), the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit on…