Luca Nebuloni, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Check. This. Out. Do you eat tacos like it’s your true calling? Now it really can be. McCormick is on the lookout for its first ever Director of Taco Relations and we’re calling all taco fanatics to submit. As the Director of…
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An employment lawyer’s take on track star Sha’Carri Richardson’s suspension for using marijuana
Image by Please Don’t sell My Artwork AS IS from Pixabay Last week, I read the news that Sha’Carri Richardson, one of the favorites to win Olympic gold for the United States in the women’s 100-meter dash, was suspended for a month for testing positive for marijuana. As a management-side…
It’s July 1. Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! (This year, in haiku!) 🧾⚾💰
By Metsfan84, CC BY 3.0, Link What did you folks do to deserve two consecutive days of modern poetry at The Employer Handbook? Well, after yesterday’s EEO-1 limerick, someone challenged me to run it back today in haiku to celebrate Bobby Bonilla Day. Challenge accepted. Bobby Bonilla Why do the…
A federal judge has issued the first ruling on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations at work. And His Honor is spittin’ 🔥🔥🔥
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay As the kids say, I’m 💀💀💀. The setup In early April, a hospital announced a policy requiring all employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by June 7. So over 100 employees sued in federal court, seeking an injunction to stop the mandate.…
“Privileged white female ‘Karen’ caught on video verbally abusing an African American male” is now suing her former employer for discrimination
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, one of my favorite HR people in the entire galaxy tweeted a link to this article from the AP. The AP reports that “the white woman who was widely condemned and fired after a videotaped dispute with…
POLL RESULTS: Don’t discipline employees that spread COVID-19 misinformation
Image by Craig Clark from Pixabay Getting in late from the Sixers/Wizards game last night — no, I didn’t dump popcorn on Russ Westbrook — I had no time to enjoy the Wednesday evening routine of a lime rickey, bubblegum cigarette, and writing the next day’s blog post. Silver lining:…
IRS to CDC: Hold our drink. Check out the new 41-page COBRA subsidy resource for employers
Image Credit: openfoodfacts.org I imagine that drink to be Ensure or Ovaltine, possibly Caffeine Free Coke Zero if things get nuts. Before face masks — or should I say no face masks — there was the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Among other things, the ARPA created a…
Join us on 3/26 at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hours. That’s right, HOURS! A DOUBLE FEATURE!!!
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Let’s give a shout-out to my special guest, David Miklas, and to everyone who attended The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour this past Friday. I had a great time discussing FFCRA, OSHA, and the new CDC COVID-19 guidance. Did you enjoy it too? Don’t worry. If you…
The EEOC has some big news for fans of EEO-1 filings!!!
party supplies by Made by Made from the Noun Project Pay attention, you two! Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dusted the cobwebs off the old EEO-1 component survey and set some deadlines for the 2020 EEO-1 filing and — wait for it — 2019’s EEO-1 filing too! Cue…
Can you fire an employee for complaining that the company violated state/local COVID-19 orders?
whistleblower by Lorie Shaull from the Noun Project Often, readers of the blog will email me recent blogworthy HR news. Occasionally, an attorney will send me a favorable decision that s/he obtained for a client on an employment law topic that may interest readers of this blog. Today, that’s what…