Image Credit: Alexas_Fotos (pixabay.com) I love my readers. But there are many added perks of being a client. For example, you get the daily blog posts. Plus, I toss in free weekend updates. (Yes, I sleep, but rarely.) In this past weekend’s update, I detailed how the U.S. Department of…
Image by Лечение наркомании from Pixabay Let’s give credit where credit is due. When Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division had the unenviable task of creating and implementing supporting guidance, enforcing the law, and tending to all of its…
Image Credit: Twitter Hopefully, your workplace looks nothing like back to school at this Georgia high school. (More on that here.) Instead, your business should have a return-to-work plan that includes social distancing (not pictured here) and mandatory face masks for employees (also not pictured here). And, speaking of face…
(U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Tech. Sgt. Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner) Technically, the new guidance is from the EEOC. But, since this is my blog, I’ll take credit for sharing it. Before I detail this new guidance, I’ve got some other big EEOC news! That is, several of my friends from…
Terabass / CC BY-SA A few months ago, I wrote here about a Families First Cornavirus Response Act lawsuit. But, not just any old FFCRA lawsuit. Rather, the State of New York sued the U.S. Department of Labor in federal court to challenge the DOL’s interpretation of the FFCRAbecause it…
Image by Klaus Hausmann from Pixabay Sorry, I should’ve warned you to grab a fire extinguisher before your head exploded. Two of my favorite employment law / HR blogs inspire today’s post. On Tuesday, over at Ask a Manager, Alison Green posted here about a small-business owner who lamented about…
By Miami Marlins – https://www.mlb.com/marlins, Public Domain, Link And by “you and I,” I mean “me and Jon Hyman.” Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story entitled, “Miami Marlins’ Virus Outbreak Throws MLB’s Pandemic Season Into Turmoil.” Among other things, it was reported that Miami Marlins players decided to…
Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Perhaps they wanted to upstage my triumphant return to Zoom for a COVID-19 HR lunchtime happy hour spectacular, which is this tomorrow at noon EDT (register here). On Monday, the U.S. Department of Labor issued new COVID-19 guidance under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Family and…
Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay While I sit here and eat a little crow, you be on the lookout for pigs flying. Initially, I had planned to offer some employment law takes on ViacomCBS dropping Nick Cannon over anti-semitic remarks. I think I’ll get to that tomorrow. Today, I want…
Image Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/governortomwolf/49680653921 //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Last week, I posted here about how several states, including the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, has new quarantine rules for out-of-state travel. For example, the Pennsylvania Department of Health posted this information on its “COVID-19 Information for Travelers.” Here’s what it said on July 2, 2020 (my…