By S nova [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia CommonsIn yesterday’s blog post, I asked you whether your employees trust your human resources department. This poll was anonymous. I only logged most of the IP addresses. Just kidding. I logged them all. Just kidding. Ok, enough kidding around. You want to know…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/feedback-satisfaction-employee-3240007/) No, they don’t. Well, at least not according to a recent survey I saw on Twitter. Earlier this week, Dave Jamieson, a labor reporter for Huffington Post, tweeted the results of a survey conducted by the creators of a workplace app called Blind. Blind is an anonymous community app…
Photo by: | VIRIN: 110402-F-5068D-001.JPG (http://www.514amw.afrc.af.mil/News/Articles/Article/194292/random-drug-test-rates-rise-dramatically/) By any reasonable, objective measure, New Jersey was having a pretty good employee-rights run in 2018 — even by NJ standards. The Diane Allen Equal Pay Act, which took effect earlier this Summer, is the most employee-friendly equal-pay law in the country; In the Fall,…
By Social Security Administration (Social Security Administration) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced another federal paid leave proposal into the swelling options currently being considered in Congress. Kicking the can on Social Security. This bill is being dubbed the ‘‘Economic Security for New Parents Act.”…
By 0x0077BE – Own work, CC0, Link How many of you, like me, work out at Planet Fitness? I like PF because it’s relatively close to the Bloggerdome and it’s $10/month. Now, if only they’d implement my many suggestion box notes to add a set of 100-pound dumbbells for bicep curls. Sun’s…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Back in November, U.S. Rep. Mimi Walters (R-Calif.) along with co-sponsors U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) introduced the Workflex in the 21st Century Act. I had a big post here about Workflex, which The Society for Human Resource Development (SHRM) has endorsed and…
Source: https://eeotraining.eeoc.gov Yep, it’s that time of year. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Training Institute is hosting its Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference in Washington, DC. The EEOC touts EXCEL as “the premier national training conference for federal and private sector EEO managers, supervisors, practitioners, HR professionals, attorneys and Alternative…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/mail-message-email-send-message-1454731/) In 2014, the National Labor Relations Board ruled here in a case called Purple Communications that employees can use company email to try to form a union. Specifically, the Board held that “employee use of email for statutorily protected communication on nonworking time must presumptively be permitted…
Image Credit: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trileptal_tablets.jpg) CC BY-SA 3.0, Link During this July 4th holiday week, I don’t expect many of you to read this blog. So, thank you to those who do stick around. And, come mid-week, I’ll set off some legal backyard fireworks in your honor. ***Updates shopping list*** And I’ll bring my…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/update-upgrade-renew-improve-1672346/) If you’re new to the field, you’ll have to take our word on it. But, HR-compliance professionals know that drafting an employee handbook that is 100% compliant got a lot tougher over the past several years. Let’s forget about paid-sick-leave laws, ban-the-box, and other state/local law matters.…