Scabby the Rat, the infamous union picket line protest symbol, fears no cat — especially not this one. Scabby feared no man either, except for Peter Robb, the former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. GC Robb, you see, was on a mission to deflate and exterminate ‘Ol…
Image Credit: Zoom and YouTube “I’m not a cat.” Bruh… I’m not a cat either. And I’ll prove it when The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour returns this Friday at Noon ET, when I’ll be joined by another non-cat, Abigail Morrow. Abigail is Assistant General Counsel at Staffmark Group, a…
Image by 1shortdesign from Pixabay A few weeks ago, one of the EEOC Commissioners asked me what more the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could do to assist the HR community. Right at the top of my list was a request for additional guidance on how businesses can help employees…
Last week, both the House and the Senate re-introduced two pieces of prior legislation. One would overhaul federal labor law — oh, is that all? The second is a new(ish) paid family leave bill that never made it to the President’s desk for signature. But, this time around, with the…
CC BY-SA 3.0, Link What is a hostile work environment? We hear that phrase used a lot. But what does the law consider to be a hostile work environment? You won’t find the words “hostile work environment” anywhere in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal…
Image Credit: The Noun Project On Monday, several business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and The Society for Human Resource Management, wrote this letter to Charlotte Burrows, the new Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. There’s just one thing they’ve got to know! Are you gonna…
Image Credit: Photofuinia.com In 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor began allowing employers to self-report wage and hour violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and pay 100% of the wages owed to workers. In exchange, DOL would not assess liquidated damages, which would otherwise equal 100% of the…
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay Let’s discuss. No vaccine? Stay home, says one law firm. On Friday, Aebra Coe at Law360 reported here (subscription required) that a Seattle-based law firm with over 500 attorneys and 2019 revenues of more than $400,000,000 “has adopted a vaccine policy for…
By U.S. Government/Gobierno de los Estados Unidos – Extracted from PDF version of a combustible dust fact sheet. Public Domain, Link On Friday, OSHA released “Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace.” In less than a minute, over on The Employer Handbook YouTube…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay It’s week 98 of quarantine, many of you are working from home, and the boss isn’t around. So, you’ve got really got no excuse to miss The Employer Handbook Office Hour today on Zoom at Noon ET, for which you can still register here…