JMacPherson from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I won’t judge you if you don’t judge me. 🤐 Although I won’t provide drinks for everyone, I will be serving up knowledge – ba dum bum – today at noon eastern on Zoom for the final 2020 edition of…
working hours by ProSymbols from the Noun Project Yesterday, I put out some feelers — Title VII friendly ones — to gauge interest in hosting “The Employer Handbook Office Hours” on Zoom tomorrow. And I was overwhelmed by the reader emails, fresh-baked cookies, and cryptocurrency. So, we’re on for tomorrow…
Image by Aidan Howe from Pixabay So, did you vote in Jon Hyman’s Worst Employers of 2020 poll? I would have voted for the company accused of having plant managers that organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Approximately 6 hours and 37 minutes after my blog post yesterday about “Preparing for Exceptions To Your Business’s COVID-19 Vaccine Program” went live, I received an email from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It read something like this: Dear Passive-Aggressive Employment Law Blogger: We…
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay I was in The Zone yesterday. Late in the afternoon, a reader emailed me to see if I had posted an article addressing “what if” an employee refuses to receive the vaccine should your business choose to require it? Well, it just…
Image by Erin Stone from Pixabay The Americans with Disabilities Act requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, except when such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. In the history of ADA, I don’t know of any court…
Image by GraphicMama-team from Pixabay If you got to this page via Google, please don’t call or email me. 😉 Because I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t work like the title of this blog post. But, hey, I’ve been wrong before. Once. Let’s see if a Michigan restaurant had any…
Image by Mike Braun from Pixabay On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate based on sex, also prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender…
Image by Shonda Ranson from Pixabay Late last week, the EEOC revised and released three publications that discuss how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) apply to veteran employees and those who employ them. The revised publications are: EEOC Efforts…
Image Credit: reassign by Ralf Schmitzer from the Noun Project Imagine that you have an employee who becomes disabled and can no longer perform the job’s essential functions. Being the good employer that you are, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, you engage the employee in an interactive dialogue…