By BuzzFeed – BuzzFeed Press, converted to SVG in Adobe Illustrator, Public Domain, Link You may have heard the news last week that Buzzfeed was laying off 15% of its workforce. You can read more about that here. Over the weekend, about 600 Buzzfeed employees petitioned management to pay out accrued,…
Font Awesome Free 5.2.0 by @fontawesome – https://fontawesome.com [CC BY 4.0]Let’s do something a little different today. I’m giving my typing fingers (and your reading eyes) a little extra R&R. Last week I hung out with my HR friend Ira Wolfe and his co-host, Keith Campagna, to discuss a variety…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/oil-price-gas-station-news-fuel-990357/) Wait. Could the really happen? Oh, I read a federal court opinion last night where it’s happening right now. And I’ve got the details for you. But, first, let’s remember that what I’m about to share with you are facts pled in a complaint, and there…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/artificial-intelligence-brain-think-3382507/) Wait, what? Last week, I participated in a Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education program entitled, “Law’s New ABC’s: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency.” During that conference, I led panel discussions on how human resources can deploy artificial intelligence and the legal implications of paying employees…
Image Credit: FreeStockPhotos.biz (http://res.freestockphotos.biz/originals/14/14328-illustration-of-a-telephone-or.png) Spoiler alert: She got fired. Many of us have been there. Someone walks into your office, calls you on the phone, emails or texts you, or whatever it is the Millenials do these days. That encounter rubs you the wrong way. And you respond instinctively, words…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/truck-18-wheeler-freight-shipping-309398/) If you’ve been to one of my live Americans with Disability Act HR presentations, you’ve heard talk about a deaf lifeguard. (If you haven’t and want a copy of my presentation, well, all you have to do is ask.) In Keith v. County of Oakland, a…
If my wide open collar and disco moves aren’t “gritty” enough for you, well, I can fix that. I can guarantee you this assuming that you recover from the hysterical blindness, I’m told it’s only temporary. We’ll have some fun at these October events. And I’ll teach you a thing or two…
It’s been getting downright vile around here at The Employer Handbook, dontchathink? We started the week with a stalker. Later in the week, it was White Power. Maybe. And, yesterday, I detailed some of the worst allegations of discrimination of 2018. The EEOC described it as “an ugly mix of sexism, racism,…
Chris J. Nelson [CC BY 3.0 ], from Wikimedia CommonsThere are planned retirements. There are unexpected retirements. And, then — hold my drink — there’s Vontae Davis’s retirement. “Never heard of it. Never seen it.” Vontae Davis played ten seasons in the National Football League, most recently for the Buffalo Bills.…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/resume-cv-hr-job-experience-2296951/) Emoji Credit: https://emojipedia.org/ If you’re a federal contractor, have you picked up your jaw since yesterday’s post? I’ll admit it. I was also surprised that a federal court would conclude that a Connecticut federal contractor could not fire an employee for using medical marijuana. What, with that…