Image by Lynn Kurtz from Pixabay News of a New York-based online mortgage lender’s CEO terminating over 900 employees with no notice on a three-minute Zoom call has been dominating my Google Alerts recently. There’s this NBCnews.com report from Elisha Fieldstadt, Ali Gostanian, and Bianca Britton. Noah Kirsch also reported…
CommunistSquared, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Greetings from Seattle. Before I begin my day of **checks notes** culture and refinement, I figured I’d blog first about this recent opinion from a federal court in Pennsylvania. It involves an individual — let’s just call him “Plaintiff” — who claimed that his former…
Image Credit: Piqsels.com Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Texas man received 15 months in prison for perpetrating a hoax related to COVID-19 after a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of 18 U.S.C. § 1038, which criminalizes false information and hoaxes related to…
Henning Schlottmann (User:H-stt), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Over at the FisherBroyles Employment Law Blog, my partner, Amy Epstein Gluck, wrote here about a recent federal court finding that a Catholic school could not avoid discrimination claims after firing a gay teacher from a secular position. Serendipitously, I just…
Whoisjohngalt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General alerted the public about a variety of COVID-19 scams, ranging from fake contact tracers COVID-19 survey scams asking for all sorts of personal information (e.g., Medicare number, financial information)…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay It’s tough enough dealing with employees who submit shady doctor notes to avoid masks or getting a COVID-19 vaccination. (I find that letterhead printed on a Saltine is a dead-bang giveaway.) But, what happens to the doctors that write these opt-out letters? The other…
Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay A little Thursday lesson on the importance of consistency, precise language, and following your rules. But before I do that, might you be interested in “Everything HR Ever Wanted to Know about Mandating COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Workplace“? If learning more about religious accommodations, booster…
Book Poetry by Wolf Böse from the Noun Project Bloggerdome entry: 19 Aug 2021, 11:05 PM. I knew it was a mistake to indulge in that second growler of Rosé. But, then again, nothing else pairs so well with smoked duck and scrapple lardons. Perhaps another souffle? No, it’s getting…
Image Credit: Publicdomainpictures.net License: CC0 Public Domain Nope. Here’s why. Generally, getting fired for intentionally violating a company’s rules or policies disqualifies that person from receiving unemployment compensation benefits. The burden is on the employer to show that the rule or policy exists, the employee knew about it and violated it…
Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Last season, COVID-19 breakouts on several teams threatened to cancel many National Football League games. But, NFL scrambled to make it work. However, this year, with the vaccinations widely available, the NFL will be cracking down on teams that don’t take prophylactic…