medical record by BomSymbols from the Noun Project I’m filing today’s post under “FMLA: Back to Basics.” Let’s say that you have an employee who is out on leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act due to a serious health condition. You want a doctor to certify that s/he…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Since the EEOC last updated its “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws” resource document on December 16, 2020, it published proposed wellness rules only to walk them back less than a week later. So, several business groups…
Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons “Equal Pay for Equal Work” has been the rallying cry in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA), which the House passed last week by a 217-210 vote. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2020, women earned 82 cents…
Daniel Barcelona, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Did I ever tell you guys about the wacky race discrimination case I defended involving a male fast-food franchise employee caught on video smacking a female co-worker? Both the violence and subsequent bogus race discrimination claim were unsettling. Still, it was…
Nicolas Ettlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons You (soft) served up one pun too many, Eric. Geez! I might have blown my chance at drafting press releases for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Then again, anything is popsicle when you’re the cream of the crop. Yeah, that’d be…
Image by Mudassar Iqbal from Pixabay And it’s not at all what you think. Title III of the ADA When most of you consider the Americans with Disabilities Act, you probably think of employees with disabilities and reasonable accommodations. That’s Title I of the ADA. But, Title III of the…
Chrisdesign, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I’m going to tell you about a Family and Medical Leave Act lawsuit that, IMHO, could have easily been avoided. But before I do that, in keeping with the theme of this post, I want to invite you to a special edition of The Employer…
Image by eiden_kris from Pixabay One of your employees has a disability that prevents her from getting to work consistently. The problem is that regular attendance is an essential function of the job. So, remote work isn’t an option. Do you need to provide her transportation as a reasonable accommodation…
DrRandomFactor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Like Freddie Bisco, the Ferrari salesman from Scent of a Woman, I’m known from coast to coast like butter and toast. So when it comes to whether businesses can require their employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, who does KTUU Alaska’s News Source…
Image by Megan Rexazin from Pixabay On the last episode of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour, we told you that it was only a matter of time before the U.S. Department of Labor issued both guidance and model notices to support the new COBRA premium subsidy under the American…