Image by Thomas Ulrich from Pixabay Both a Harvard graduate and a police detective who supported the recent Black Lives Matter protests appear to be finding out the hard way that posting violent threats on social media, even if in jest, can end up costing a job. “The next person…
By Metsfan84, CC BY 3.0, Link Between us friends, tell me. What’s the biggest severance that you’ve ever paid to an underperforming employee? I ask this question because, today, the New York Mets are paying $1,193,248.20 to a former third baseman named Bobby Bonilla. Casual baseball fans may not remember…
oImage by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay TL;DR – Damn skippy, you can. Do you guys read “Ask a Manager” by Allison Green? It’s a fantastic HR blog where readers submit questions — some real zany ones — to Allison for her input. Yesterday, I noticed that a reader had asked for…
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay If you haven’t had this conversation yet with one of your current or furloughed employees, you inevitably will. So, what do you say? Well, I can’t begin to give you the rules for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. But, I can…
Image credit: J_avant81 on Instagram NBC10 Philadelphia reports here that a corrections officer in New Jersey mocked George Floyd’s death as protesters marched past. Jason Avant, a former wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, shared a video of it on Instagram (NSFW). Although there is political propaganda in the video,…
LA Galaxy / CC BY-SA Ok, there is one more social-media related termination that we need to discuss. The virtual ink had barely dried on last Friday’s post about “13 people who were fired for ignorant COVID-19 and protest social media posts” when BOOM! TMZ.com reported here that a professional…
By Dukesy68 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link On Friday, my friend, Jeff Nowak, blogged at his FMLA Insights blog about whether an employee may take FMLA leave during a furlough? And that got me re-thinking a question that he and I had discussed before, namely, can an employer…
National Archives at College Park / Public domain I don’t usually take pleasure in the misfortune of others. At least not to their face. But over the past week or so I’ve been bombarded with Google alerts about ignorant people who seem not to appreciate the difference between freedom of…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Last week, I blogged here about a couple of bills in Congress that could relax some of the more stringent rules associated with Paycheck Protection Program loans. This week, one of those pieces of legislation called the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020…
Image by Okan Caliskan from Pixabay As part of return-to-work from COVID-19, sadly, some employees are not going to return to work. I’m not talking about those situations in which an employee refuses to return. That’s a different post for a different day. No, I’m thinking about a situation in…