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 [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,…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/interview-job-icon-job-interview-1018333/) Back in 2017, the City of Philadelphia became the first city in the country to pass a law forbidding local employers from asking individuals about their salary history. The purpose of the law was to help close the wage gap between men and women. Then the…
Image by Jim Gade from Pixabay Nearly three years ago to the day, I provided 55,000 reasons to allow your pregnant employees to be exposed to toxic chemicals at work. Wait, what? If a pregnant woman needs to use poisonous lacquer thinners… The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued…
Photo by Black ice from Pexels It’s one of the most common questions that I get from clients and readers. With so many employment laws out there, it’s not easy to keep track of what those laws say — let alone which ones you may have to follow. That’s why…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay The wage-and-hour pendulum has once again shifted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Nerdiest. Pendulum. Ever. Salary-level test changes. Back in October, I blogged about how Pennsylvania, yes Pennsylvania, had announced new overtime rules that are more generous than federal law. On January 1 of this…
Stefan Scheer [CC BY-SA]According to a recent survey, 17.5 million American workers may be skipping work today, the day after the Super Bowl. About 6 in 10 of those employees had their Monday absence pre-approved. So, at least you can plan for that. But, what about the other 6-or-so million?…
By National Museum of American History – Image by Godot13, Public Domain, Link Workplace accommodations can be easy. For example, when an employee with carpal tunnel syndrome requests an ergonomic keyboard to perform his job, and his job involves a lot of typing, you get him the keyboard. Or maybe…
https://www.needpix.com/photo/180045/question-worry-wonder-unsure-confused-uncertain-asking-wondering-uncertainty Beats me. (Still, it seems like an excellent excuse to get back to basics and explain how courts analyze discrimination claims). But, first, let’s cue the music as we talk about… Those Wild School Days. The plaintiff in today’s case was an assistant professor of poetry at a college…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay In what I hope does not become a weekly feature here at The Employer Handbook, it’s time to update the readers on some new laws that NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed last week. Stop Work Orders. Let’s say that the State of New Jersey learns…