Pete unseth [CC BY-SA]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…
Image by Digital Photo and Design DigiPD.com from Pixabay Repent ye sinners! The apocalypse is nigh! No, the world isn’t really ending. So, keep your shirts on. I’m talking to you, HR. But, who would’ve guessed that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Americans Civil Liberties Union would agree…
Image Credit: Tommy Boy (screenshot from Vimeo.com) Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting: “I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come…
By David Shankbone – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link Yesterday’s post was all about the breadth of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). We addressed a situation in which a plaintiff alleged that her employer fired her for seeking an abortion. The court concluded that, if true, the employer’s actions would…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay A Louisiana woman claimed that, back in September 2017, she told her employer that she had become pregnant and that she was planning on having an abortion. The woman then alleged that, during her time off from work, the company violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Read on to see how your business can avoid being part of this exclusive club. Two employers; over five million dollars. Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced (here) that it had recovered $1.75M from a California employer that it had accused of systemic discrimination…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Every so often — not, “if I had a nickel” often, but every once in a while — someone hits me up for my two cents on firing an employee who is on FMLA or some other form of protected leave for [fill in the reason]. And…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/pregnant-woman-pregnancy-mother-735393/) I feel awful about the Red Sox eliminating the Yankees not blogging for you on Wednesday. So, today you get a double shot of The Employer Handbook. This one is about pregnancy discrimination. Specifically, a recent federal court opinion where the issue was whether an employer…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/bookcase-law-firm-attorney-335850/) I don’t know how else to describe it. So, I’m going to quote from the EEOC’s press release, but I’ll conceal the name of the law firm. The law firm that paid $30,000 to settle with the EEOC: The [] Law Firm has agreed to pay $30,000 and…
Even Kramerica Industries knows better than that. This company did WHAT?!? One California employer, not so much apparently. That is, in September 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed this complaint in CA federal court against a local orchid grower. And that complaint contains some allegations that’ll make your head spin.…