Map of USA with state names.svg: Wapcapletderivative work: Pikne / CC BY-SA Hint: It’s not Alabama, which is dead last. By the way, if you’re a little confused about the state map at the top of this blog post, it’s Estonian. We embrace all cultures and national origins here at…
Image Credit: https://pixy.org/528010/ I’ve got a hypothetical situation for you. ABC employs Sally. Sally’s father, John, is a third-party vendor who sells widgets to ABC. One day, Sally files a charge of discrimination with the EEOC against ABC, claiming to be the victim of gender discrimination. Eventually, Sally resigns and…
Image Credit: Alexas_Fotos (pixabay.com) I love my readers. But there are many added perks of being a client. For example, you get the daily blog posts. Plus, I toss in free weekend updates. (Yes, I sleep, but rarely.) In this past weekend’s update, I detailed how the U.S. Department of…
By John Dorwin – <span class=”int-own-work” lang=”en”>Own work</span>, Public Domain, Link In its recent COVID-19 Americans with Disabilities Act guidance, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraged that employers be flexible in determining accommodations for employees during the pandemic. Some suggestions included temporary job restructuring of marginal job duties, temporary…
Image by Jody Davis from Pixabay On Wednesday evening, the players on the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks shocked us all. They voted not to play their scheduled playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake. Mr. Blake is a 29-year-old African-American man whom a Kenosha,…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay On Tuesday, a prescient reader emailed me to suggest a blog topic. He wondered what the labor and employment law implications would be if a bunch of athletes refused to play a scheduled game in protest of social/racial injustice. And then, yesterday, the Milwaukee Bucks…
Maxpixel: Nutrition Scale Weight Loss Weight Let’s start over with a less awkward headline. Ok, here goes… Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor eliminated approximately 3,200 guidance documents (almost 11,700 pages) from its database. These documents are rescinded and no longer carry any weight with the DOL. Additionally, the…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Hopefully, you know by now that you should be tracking the time of non-exempt employees working remotely during this pandemic. If this is news to you, well… But, have you figured out an excellent way to track hours that an employee works, even though…
Two black employees complain to a supervisor that a white co-worker is taunting them with racial pejoratives. What do you do? Take the complaint seriously, investigate, and take other steps that are reasonably designed to end the complained-of behavior, nothing, or ignore the complaint, just like the racist graffiti of…
Image by Hatice EROL from Pixabay Let’s find out… Face mask mandates have spawned a spate of lawsuits by patrons of restaurants and grocery stores. Are face mask mandates akin to “no shirt, no shoes, no service”? Or is there something more when requiring face masks? Shout out to Jelisa…