Image by CryptoSkylark from Pixabay I know, right? Shocking! But it’s true, and I’ll explain why. “More than a de minimis cost.” On Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to review a case in which an employee claimed that his former employer failed to accommodate his religious beliefs by allowing…
Image by Martine Auvray from Pixabay Come on, Eric! Yesterday, you blogged about Philly, and now this. What’s with all the Pennsylvania posts this week? Ok, folks. I promise(ish). We’re (likely) done. In the remaining three posts, I’ll (probably) incorporate other states. Like tomorrow, I want to blog about how…
Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Imagine a non-union widget factory in which widget makers want to unionize. As part of the unionizing campaign, one of the widget makers decides to wear a vest on which he writes “Widget Lives Matter.” Management is concerned that this vest is…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Several states are taking steps to forbid employers from requiring that workers receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Separately, I know of at least two pending lawsuits that employees have filed. I already blogged about one of them here. The other is pending in a federal court in…
Image by Martine Auvray from Pixabay An employee’s perception of the workplace is critical to gaining an accurate picture of what the actual workplace is like. Do you agree? If you answered yes, maybe one day you can serve on the Sixth Circuit Court Appeals, out of which a district…
Image Credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer (Syringe and vaccination record card on blue background)//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js The Miami Heat made news twice yesterday. First, the rumor mill has the franchise closely tied to a deal for Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry. Of course, my beloved Philadelphia 76ers are also in the…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay A high school basketball announcer was caught on a live microphone uttering a racial slur about the girls of the Norman basketball team, who had taken a knee during the national anthem. “They’re kneeling? F*** them,” one of the men said. “I hope Norman…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here, Public Domain, Link Probably not. But please keep reading anyway. (I knew I should have saved the answer for the end of the post. Damnit!) In what seems to be a pattern, President Biden has fired another general counsel from an…
Photo By: Senior Airman Donald Hudson (https://www.defense.gov/observe/photo-gallery/igphoto/2001841357/) Hey, I know a good management-side employment lawyer! Just sayin’. What is USERRA? The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) is a federal law that protects servicemembers’ and veterans’ civilian employment rights. USERRA guarantees reemployment rights for employees who…
flex muscle by liz borchert from the Noun Project I knew that my training and day-to-day employer counseling were good. But damn! Ok, it wasn’t so much me as it was a global pandemic, but either way, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just reported its Fiscal Year 2020 stats,…