Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Hot on the heels of yesterday’s blog post about mandatory face coverings for customers, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed this Executive Order designed to protect NJ businesses’ customers and employees further. (Technically, the EO preceded my blog post. But I’m not keeping score.) This press…
Image by Viktor Ivanchenko from Pixabay A few months ago, I blogged here about a lawsuit filed in a Pennsylvania federal court in which a plaintiff alleged that a grocery store’s inflexible policy of requiring all customers to face coverings — even the ones with documented medical issues — violated…
Rachel Malehorn, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Shout out to the 648 of you who participated in yesterday’s poll and weighed in on the newest Supreme Court Justice: Amy Coney Barrett. The survey had five questions, and participants were folks who read this blog or follow me on social…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY As I’m typing this blog post at 10:56 PM on Monday, the Senate has voted 52-48 to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The vote was along party lines with all Republicans, except Susan Collins (ME-R), voting in favor of Justice Barrett.…
Alexas Fotos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Ordinarily, this is that time of year when I recycle an old Halloween post and ensure that the best blog readers in the world are prepared for the employees that exercise poor judgment when reporting to work on Halloween. Instead, I’m building a slingshot…
Zindox, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Consider this simple set of facts: Employee injures his knee; Employee requests FMLA leave; Employer says no because the FMLA leave would coincide with the employee’s hunting trip; Employee takes leave anyway; and Employer fires employee upon his return to work. Has the…
By Employment Development Department – Public Domain, Link Maybe Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, who uses the stage name “Nuke Bizzle,” took it one teensy step too far. Late last week, the US. Department of Justice announced here that it had arrested and charged Mr. Baines for a scheme to fraudulently…
Lantay77 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons It’s getting hot in herrrrrrrrrrrrre! Well, tepid. It’s an employment law blog, after all. A strip club in Ohio employed two women for several months. Let’s call them, oh, I dunno, “plaintiffs.” During their time working for the club, the plaintiffs…
Terron F.Beckham, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Restauranteur Nusret Gökçe became an internet sensation a few years ago. Basically, he’s famous because he did this. And he’s easy on the eyes. Hence, the nickname “Salt Bae.” According to Wikipedia, Mr. Gökçe has cashed in on his popularity and fame…
Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Last Friday, I read an attorney’s status update on LinkedIn that asked a simple question, one which many of us often take for granted. “What is the cost of inaction?” As a lawyer, that really resonates. Inaction, and some other “I” words like indecision and inertia, are…