We’re just a few months away from the Presidential election. That means that the debates are right around the corner. Back in 2008, around this time, employment-law blogger Daniel Schwartz at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog rounded up some other bloggers to pose hypothetical debate questions to the ’08 candidates for…
True story: In the wake of last year’s stupid turtle ploy to elicit votes for The Employer Handbook in the ABA Blawg 100 Amici, I spent over an hour in a Harrisburg hotel room on Tuesday night trying to one-up (one-down?) myself by programming a talking computer avatar with an…
We interrupt this labor & employment law blog for an important announcement… It’s got a nice ring to it…
The July edition of the Employment Law Blog Carnival is now up and running. You can view it here. Thank you to all who contributed. And a special thank you to Heather Bussing and HRExaminer.com for hosting. If you would like to participate in future carnivals, email me and I…
I’m a fairly easy-going guy. My buttons don’t get easily pushed, I’m not easily riled, and I rarely get angry. But, when I get fired up….look out, sucka! One thing that really gets me going is when others fail to accept accountability for their mistakes and do nothing to fix…
Less than one week to go before the 2012 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition kicks off. I’ll be there. And here’s where we can meet up: Monday night you can find me discussing cutting-edge HR/employment-law issues at The Official #SHRM12 TweetUp & Afterparty powered by SHRM & Glassdoor. And if you…
From the blog that previously brought you “Smoke pot + grizzly bear bite (in the butt) = collect workers’ comp,” comes the story of the boozing builder who, well, I’ll let the Court of Appeals of Utah explain: Mr. Wood was engaged in work activities on behalf of Karr during…
It was either the Mr. Rogers approach or the Seinfeld approach. In the end, I chose Jerry to add some levity to what is otherwise going to be a very boring blog post. You’ve been warned. According this report released last month from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the…
Will office pools be legal in Pennsylvania this year? One State Senator is trying to make it so. Jealous, New Mexico? Yeah, you’re jealous. Details after the jump… Philly.com reports here that Pennsylvania State Sen. Lisa M. Boscola will introduce legislation to make small office pools legal in the Keystone…
I usually save my best posts for Monday, but what the heck… We are expecting our third child in August.