Image by torstensimon from Pixabay CDC be damned! We’ve got what appears to be our first lawsuit related to a workplace vaccination mandate.. On February 28, an employee at a New Mexico detention center has sued his employer, which supposedly now requires that all first responders receive the COVID-19 vaccination,…
Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons But there’s a catch. It has something to do with vaccinations. Perhaps you’ve heard of them. Here are the CDC’s new recommendations, which apply to non-healthcare settings. Fully vaccinated people can: Visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here, Public Domain, Link Probably not. But please keep reading anyway. (I knew I should have saved the answer for the end of the post. Damnit!) In what seems to be a pattern, President Biden has fired another general counsel from an…
Photo By: Senior Airman Donald Hudson (https://www.defense.gov/observe/photo-gallery/igphoto/2001841357/) Hey, I know a good management-side employment lawyer! Just sayin’. What is USERRA? The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) is a federal law that protects servicemembers’ and veterans’ civilian employment rights. USERRA guarantees reemployment rights for employees who…
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elsaolofsson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons and Cannabis News No, today isn’t “Bring Your Bong To Work” Day. That’s tomorrow. But the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is finally conceding in this memo that marijuana use may not be a concern when considering the suitability or fitness of…
flex muscle by liz borchert from the Noun Project I knew that my training and day-to-day employer counseling were good. But damn! Ok, it wasn’t so much me as it was a global pandemic, but either way, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just reported its Fiscal Year 2020 stats,…
Image Credit: Pixy.org Me? I would’ve picked door number one. Hey, before we get into this cluster of a lawsuit, ICYMI, check out the recording of Friday’s The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour, which you can access here and over at The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel. Don’t let the door…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Spoiler alert: No. (Well, actually, it depends.) Certainly not under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which sunset on December 31, 2020. Even for covered employers that voluntarily provide FFCRA benefits through March 31, the answer is still no. There’s nothing in the FFCRA that…
maternity ward by Made by Made from the Noun Project Worse yet, the employer is a hospital!!! Now, remember that what I’m about to share with you are allegations from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission press release, which the EEOC will eventually have to prove to be true. But,…