Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Practicing employment law in the State of New Jersey is both a blessing and a curse. I’ll clarify that. It’s great for me because New Jersey passes new employment laws faster than Joey Chestnut eats Nathan’s Hot Dogs on the Fourth of July. So, rather…
By POV – Impawards, Link John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. According to multiple reports, among them, this one from Evan Simko-Bednarski and Anna Sturla reporting at CNN,…
By Alexrk – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link Water is wet. Grass is green. And, yes, New Jersey remains the employee-rights capital of the East. Actually, since we’re talking about New Jersey, I really should have said ‘wooder’ is wet for the South Jersey folks and ‘wourder’ is wet…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5dfae5ac089f7ac0528b45a3) And it only took 22 years. Back in 1997, Puff Daddy — he was Puff Daddy back then — was burning up the charts with his Biggie Smalls tribute, I’ll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans and 112). Meanwhile, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released…
Image by Darrin Kiessling from Pixabay “So, Meyer thinks his organized-labor blog posts go over like wet farts, does he? Fam, let’s announce one — no, TWO HUGE DECISIONS in one day, and we’ll see how he gets around writing about them. That blogger nerd!” — National Labor Relations Board…
Raymond Wambsgans from Akron Ohio, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAt dinner the other night, someone asked me what I did for a living. So, I told that person that I’m a blogger dammit and people respect me for it an employment lawyer. She responded with words to the…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board announced that it will revamp union-election rules to “better ensure the opportunity for litigation and resolution of unit scope and voter eligibility issues.” In other words, it’s a very employer-friendly move. You can read all about it here, here,…
Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay Back in March, when I debated going on the lam after some completely innocent child labor wage-and-hour shenanigans, the United States Department of Labor announced that it was going to work on a new rule to clarify how companies calculate overtime for…
Image Credit: https://freesvg.org/1550658029 (Public Domain) Regular, in-person attendance is generally critical to performing one’s job. So, when an employee exhausts her twelve weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act only to miss another 33 days of work (resulting in a 59% absentee rate), one’s job security may…
Image by Pintera Studio from Pixabay Several media outlets, among them Law360 and NBC News, are reporting that Congress almost has a deal done to provide 12 weeks of paid leave to employees to care for a newborn or adopted child or to care for a family member. But, to…