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Real leadership is admitting when you’re wrong (like firing a Jewish employee who calls out Nazis).

Image by Mango Matter from Pixabay On Wednesday, I wrote (here) about the New York Mets’ decision to terminate its General Manager, just one month into his tenure, because the team recently learned that he sexted a female reporter in 2016 while working for the Chicago Cubs in their front…

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Eight ways that President Biden changed employment law on Day One. That was fast!!!

Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On Monday, I blogged about President Biden’s first HR-compliance wish list, which focused on COVID-19 mitigation efforts. On Wednesday, President Biden was sworn in. And, folks, he wasted no time making moves that will impact…

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In his first month on the job, the new Mets GM completed two blockbuster trades. And yesterday, it seems he got fired for sexting.

By Richiek – Own work CC BY-SA 3.0, Link On December 13, 2020, the New York Mets announced that the club had named Jared Porter the team’s 14th General Manager in franchise history. Porter agreed to a four-year contract. In just over a month since then, the team had made…

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FACT OR FICTION: Complying with ADEA disclosure requirements for a layoff means listing foreign non-U.S. workers too

Image Credit: Photofunia It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Fact or Fiction:  Employees who are not U.S. citizens and work outside of the United States for American employers (or…

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President-Elect Biden published his first HR compliance wish list. (And you won’t believe No. 3!)

Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I always click on those “And you won’t believe No…” posts. How about you? But, seriously, last week, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team announced his American Rescue Plan through which he plans to “change the…

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An employee curses out a customer on Twitter. Was she fired? Heck no! The company had her back!

@MaidenSarah2 on Twitter Often on this blog, I write about employees who lose their jobs for doing dumb stuff on social media — like the one-time Associate General Counsel and HR Director who live-streamed himself on Instagram from the Capitol riots. I’ve got slide decks full of this stuff from…

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A federal court just greenlit the failure-to-accommodate claim of a medical marijuana user. But why?!?

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Oh, I was just asking. I thought you knew. Ok, let’s start over.  Since I did read this opinion and, apparently, it’s my job to do the ‘splaining around here. Just don’t accuse me of blog-splaining. Anyway, according to the plaintiff, an employee of a…

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The EEOC has some big news for fans of EEO-1 filings!!!

party supplies by Made by Made from the Noun Project Pay attention, you two! Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dusted the cobwebs off the old EEO-1 component survey and set some deadlines for the 2020 EEO-1 filing and — wait for it — 2019’s EEO-1 filing too! Cue…

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Can you fire an employee for complaining that the company violated state/local COVID-19 orders?

whistleblower by Lorie Shaull from the Noun Project Often, readers of the blog will email me recent blogworthy HR news. Occasionally, an attorney will send me a favorable decision that s/he obtained for a client on an employment law topic that may interest readers of this blog. Today, that’s what…

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Before your business rewards employees for getting the COVID-19 vaccine, read this. (It may save you a lawsuit.)

Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay According to a recent SHRM survey, most companies will encourage employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine — but not require it. Many employers, like this one, may even incentivize employees to get the vaccine by offering them money or extra PTO days…