Someone made an impulse buy; he doesn’t regret it. And they’re not at all funny-looking either.* *The CDC has not evaluated this statement. We’ve known for a while now that COVID-19 spreads through respiratory droplets when people sneeze, cough, sing, breathe, basically do anything with their pie-holes. The Centers for…
Pixabay.com A black man who was fired after recording a rap song, claims that his race — not his use of the “N”-word twice in the video — motivated his employer to end his employment. And, according to a federal judge in California, he may be right. Here are the…
Image by Erin Stone from Pixabay In a landslide victory on election day — ok, a touch of politics — New Jersey voters overwhelmingly supported legalizing recreational marijuana. But where and when can you get it? (Asking for a friend). And what does legalized recreational marijuana mean for local employers?…
I had planned to move away from politics today, but I saw this on my Facebook feed yesterday and just couldn’t shake it. Now, I want to make this as non-partisan as I can. But, this tweet comes from Jake Tapper at CNN, whom some of you may consider “Fake…
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Once the networks called the presidential election for Joe Biden over the weekend, something dawned on me. Maybe, I should write about how the new administration may impact employment law. I mean, what other employment…
Alexas_Fotos on Pixabay If I felt a little snarkier, I would have gone with this instead of the confused emoji. No, I’m pretty sure that’s not how the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) works. Under the ADA, it’s just as unlawful to retaliate as it is to discriminate. A plaintiff…
Image by macdeedle from Pixabay Last year, I wrote here about a Florida high school principal who was fired because, allegedly, he refused to say the Holocaust happened because “not everyone believes” it actually occurred. Well, according to CNN, about a month ago, the school board picked the wrong week…
Image by Rebekka D from Pixabay How about the two new wage and hour opinion letters that the U.S. Department of Labor issued yesterday on esoteric Fair Labor Standards Act issues? Here they are: FLSA2020-15: Addressing the compensability of time that employees spend attending voluntary training programs in certain situations.…
H. Michael Miley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Let’s say that your child attends school either on a hybrid or full-time schedule. Your child comes into close contact with another person with COVID-19. The school instructs you to quarantine your child at home for 14 days while the class…
Image by Markéta Machová from Pixabay Back in March, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) into law. The FFCRA allows eligible employees to receive either paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. Recently, COVID-19 numbers have begun spiking…