Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay At this point, that’s kinda like asking which day of the week ends in a “y”? Yep, New Jersey has gone and done it again. Here are five things that employers need to know about this new law: If you employ 100 or more…
Image by diapicard from Pixabay In 2020, the Americans with Disabilities Act turns 30. President George H.W. Bush signed it into law in 1990 to ensure civil rights for individuals with disabilities. Chia-Yi Hou at The Hill published a nice 30-year ADA recap here. The ADA is much more than…
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay It’s bad enough when a federal judge refers to a plaintiff-employee’s behavior towards her manager as “harassing, stalking, disturbing, and menacing.” And, I apologize that I didn’t have enough room in the title of this blog post to mention the plaintiff’s profanity and fighting at…
Pete unseth [CC BY-SA]The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide new moms with reasonable break time and a private place to pump breastmilk. Well, not all new moms; just the non-exempt workers; i.e., the overtime-eligible employees. But, new bipartisan legislation proposed last…
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Late in October 2018, New Jersey’s Earned Sick Leave Law (ESLL) took effect. Under the ESLL, employees can accrue one hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 in a year. In November 2018, the State’s Department of Labor…
License: CC0 Public Domain Hypothetically, if I were to go to a gentlemen’s club, I would expect to see women dancing on stage for money. That’s what goes on there, I’m told. And hypothetically, if I were to go to a gentlemen’s club, and I were to purchase a beverage,…
SimmeD [CC BY-SA]I’ve seen a lot of ink spilled by employment lawyers about how #MeToo, new overtime rules, medical marijuana, and salary history questions will be the significant issues with which employers would have to deal in 2020. The Federal Trade Commission and I have other ideas. Last week, the…
Image by Digital Photo and Design DigiPD.com from Pixabay Repent ye sinners! The apocalypse is nigh! No, the world isn’t really ending. So, keep your shirts on. I’m talking to you, HR. But, who would’ve guessed that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Americans Civil Liberties Union would agree…
Image by Hebi B. from Pixabay While you guys were watching the NFL playoffs yesterday, a little birdie told me that the U.S. Department of Labor had announced its final rule to update its joint-employer regulations. Here’s the skinny. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires covered employers to pay their…
Image Credit: @sydneyywhitson on Twitter Fair warning, this post is more about pettiness than employment law. Do you have that employee? Let’s try that again. We all have that employee. S/he is always missing work because an aunt died, the dog was sick, grandmother died, flat tire, the same aunt…