By Metsfan84, CC BY 3.0, Link What did you folks do to deserve two consecutive days of modern poetry at The Employer Handbook? Well, after yesterday’s EEO-1 limerick, someone challenged me to run it back today in haiku to celebrate Bobby Bonilla Day. Challenge accepted. Bobby Bonilla Why do the…
Book Poetry by Wolf Böse from the Noun Project Today, I’m channeling my inner ***check notes*** poet. Let us celebrate in verse the EEOC extending the deadline to file EEO-1 reports There once was an EEO-1 deadline Just file by July 19, and you’ll be fine But that date proved…
Marielam1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Last year, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Bostock v. Clayton County that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender has discriminated based on sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yesterday, the Supreme Court…
MikeRun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I really wanted to use the Spiderman meme here. But to avoid any potential copyright issues, please accept this cheaply executed facsimile — not in counterparts — instead. And here is some music to hammer the point home. I see something like this…
David Maiolo [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsSince I’m going to see most of you at Noon EDT today for The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour — register here if you haven’t already — I’m going to keep today’s blog post brief. The Age Discrimination In Employment Act makes it unlawful for…
Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay In anticipation of the triumphant return of The Employer Handbook Zoom Officer Hour on Friday, June 25 at Noon Eastern, when we’ll focus on answering all of your COVID-19 return to work questions, it struck me that one of the big issues is…
Image by Hebi B. from Pixabay The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seems to think so. Here’s more from a recent press release announcing a Title VII lawsuit against a Midwest employer for refusing to accommodate a Christian employee who refused to have his fingerprints taken: The EEOC’s pre-suit investigation…
Gary J. Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Do you have tipped employees? If so, you’re gonna want to keep reading. If not, I’ll see you tomorrow. (Either way, before you go, make sure to register here for the return of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour on Friday, June…
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay Last Wednesday, as part of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s EXCEL Conference, three of us (me and two of the EEOC’s education and outreach coordinators) gazed into our crystal ball to predict some of the issues that employers will face as more employees return…
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay Today we’re going back to the basics and learning how a plaintiff must prove a sex discrimination claim based on circumstantial (i.e., the defendant doesn’t concede, “I fired you because you’re a woman.”) A prima facie claim for sex discrimination. First, a woman alleging…