Photo by Tayeb MEZAHDIA from Pexels *And by ‘top secret, classified, confidential,’ I mean readily available from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s publicly accessible website (here). And also, here and here. Or, you can just keep reading, because I’ve cut and pasted some of two of the five priorities…
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This, right here, is some of the most messed up retaliation (allegedly). And it all settled for a cool milli.
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Many of you have good taste in employment law blogs, my ramblings and typos notwithstanding. That’s because you also read Jon Hyman’s Ohio Employer Law Blog. Jon’s blog is a…
How do your employees report FMLA absences?
Image Credit: PxFuel.com (License to use Creative Commons Zero – CC0) I’m a two tin can and string kinda guy. That way, not only can I can tell my kids — I have 50 of them — to cut the crap and clip my blogger toenails but also I can…
Governor Phil Murphy wants an “overhaul” of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e4c9a4e089f7a2b888b45b4) And I want to try “The Perfect Bite” that Binging With Babish cooked up last week on his YouTube channel. Here is what his duck carbonara looked like. But, Governor Murphy’s proposed changes to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) aren’t nearly as aspirational. And if…
Study reveals that job recruiters are least likely to select candidates that do WHAT on social media?
Ibrahim.ID / CC BY-SA Obviously, probably, and definitely. But, a recent survey didn’t cover any of these examples. Survey methodology Instead, researchers at Penn State University “recruited 436 hiring managers from a variety of organizations, 61% of whom were employed in the hospitality industry and the remainder in industries ranging…
But, Eric, how can employees get FMLA if they are overseas?
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Yesterday, over at The Employer Handbook Facebook page — give us a like — I saw a comment, followed by a snarky meme, in response to yesterday’s Family and Medical Leave Act / Coronavirus post. One reader commented that an employee stranded on a ship…
Can an employee, stranded on a quarantined cruise ship, take FMLA? #Coronavirus
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay I’m a little late to the employment law blogger party where we fearmonger about Coronavirus and what employers should do about employee travel. I planned to take a pass on that. But, then I read this article on Bloomberg about a cruise ship that can’t…
For one company, forced worker arbitration may turn out to be its worst nightmare.
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. [cue music] If you require your employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, and those arbitration agreements force employees to waive their rights to assert claims together as part…
A federal court just killed collection of EEO-1 employee pay data dead. Happy Tuesday.
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e41ee23089f7ab90a8b4591) It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up! magazine. Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine. I guess Notorious B.I.G. wasn’t exactly rapping about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requirement for employers with one hundred or more employees to file with the…
TikTok, the new(ish) social media kid on the block, claims some employee victims.
TikTok [Public domain]When it comes to employees getting fired for their social media use, the Mount Rushmore of platforms claiming these victims is Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. But, let’s talk a little bit about TikTok. But, before I do that and apropos of the theme of this post, yo,…