Image by Alexey Hulsov from Pixabay In the past several days, many states have issued stay-at-home orders. Here is a list of them from CNN. These orders vary, and no one is literally locked in their homes. But, the gist is that affected citizens should stay at home unless they…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com “Eric, so, what exactly just happened?” I know it’s confusing. You’ve been inundated with blog posts, articles, and whatnot about a House bill called the Families First Coronavirus Response Act that the House changed a few times before sending it to the Senate. Then, the Senate almost…
tEvan-Amos / Public domain But, first, thank you to everyone who stopped by yesterday for the Facebook Live / Zoom chat to discuss the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and other COVID-19 workplace issues. ICYMI, we did record the session. I’ve got audio here and my handsome talking mug here.…
Ibrahim.ID / CC BY-SA Obviously, probably, and definitely. But, a recent survey didn’t cover any of these examples. Survey methodology Instead, researchers at Penn State University “recruited 436 hiring managers from a variety of organizations, 61% of whom were employed in the hospitality industry and the remainder in industries ranging…
TikTok [Public domain]When it comes to employees getting fired for their social media use, the Mount Rushmore of platforms claiming these victims is Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. But, let’s talk a little bit about TikTok. But, before I do that and apropos of the theme of this post, yo,…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/interview-job-icon-job-interview-1018333/) Back in 2017, the City of Philadelphia became the first city in the country to pass a law forbidding local employers from asking individuals about their salary history. The purpose of the law was to help close the wage gap between men and women. Then the…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay At this point, that’s kinda like asking which day of the week ends in a “y”? Yep, New Jersey has gone and done it again. Here are five things that employers need to know about this new law: If you employ 100 or more…
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay It’s bad enough when a federal judge refers to a plaintiff-employee’s behavior towards her manager as “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing.” And, I apologize that I didn’t have enough room in the title of this blog post to mention the plaintiff’s profanity and fighting at…
By Augustus Binu, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Because I’m a lawyer, I’ll say it depends. Except, I won’t charge you 0.1 hours of my time to say it. Instead, I encourage you to go to SHRM’s website and read this article from Roy Maurer. Roy addresses a decision by the…
Number55 [CC BY]A Toronto man who worked for the same company for six years no longer works there. All because of a tweet and a bottle of barbecue sauce. Multiple news outlets are reporting that an employee who received a $5.99 bottle of barbecue sauce from his employer as a…