Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Employers generally pay the lawyers representing them by the hour. Conversely, employee-rights attorneys generally representing plaintiffs in these types of cases do so on a contingency basis, meaning…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Imagine if one of your plant managers organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19. That’s one of the scandalous allegations in a pair of amended complaints filed in federal court last week. You…
Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pennsylvania businesses with employees who report to the office will need to update their workplace policies in light of some new rules effective this week. On Tuesday, Dr. Rachel Levine announced (here) several new COVID-19 restrictions, two of…
Sowlos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced here that it had released for public comment this new draft guidance on religious discrimination in the workplace. The EEOC is long overdue for an update. As the EEOC notes in the press release, it…
Luigi Crespo from Frederick, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons That would make things interesting, wouldn’t it? New Jersey and Philadelphia, among others, tighten the belt. We’ve seen a spate of new state and local COVID-19 restrictions over the past week or so. Why, just yesterday, New Jersey…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Immigration and employment law often go hand in hand. Whether you operate a business or support it in a legal/management/human resources role, I can say with confidence that you’ve dealt with your fair share of immigration-compliance issues, especially over the last four years. If immigration were more…
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…