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How long does your employee have to file an EEOC Charge of Discrimination against your business?

By: CoD_fsfe, Courtesy: Open Clip Art Library (http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/show_file.php?id=13925176815) Actually, it depends. 😉 Here’s how it works for non-federal-sector employees: An employee must file a charge of discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within 180 calendar days from the day the discrimination took place. However, if your business operates…

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Mom ordered a ‘Moana’ cake for her daughter’s birthday. She got a marijuana cake instead. Whoops!

Image Credit: Kensli Taylor Davis on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220318919467148&set=a.2332519756469&type=3&theater) We’ve all been there. Ok, some of us haven’t accidentally decorated a viral marijuana cake. Here’s what happened according to this report from Trisha Ahmed and Katherine Dillinger reporting at CNN: A marijuana-themed cake made this family’s day in Milledgeville, Georgia —…

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It is SO DARN EASY for one of your employees to pursue a discrimination claim. But, here’s the thing…

Photo by Sabine Gausemeier from Pexels How easy is it? Easier than Sunday morning, which is easier than beating the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon. Fired after a DUI. I’m going to tell you about this case where an African-American man with alcoholism, sued his former employer for firing…

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Five things NJ employers need to know about the State’s expanded medical marijuana law

Neeta Lind [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Governor Phil Murphy signed the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, which overhauls New Jersey’s Medicinal Marijuana Program (MMP) and its original Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act (CUMMA). Here are five things that local employers need to know about…

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40,000 reasons to remember that the duty to accommodate in your workplace begins right away

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay They line up around the block. As you can tell from the clipart, they come in all shapes and sizes to apply for assistant positions at The Employer Handbook. For example, in a few months, I’ll be advertising for Fantasy Football Grunt III. His/her essential…

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A stray comment is probably not enough to lose a discrimination lawsuit. But, it can be enough to lose a job.

Image by Bokskapet from Pixabay Just ask a Detroit TV news anchor with 26 years of experience and 15 Michigan Emmys. Here’s more from Steve Neavling reporting here from the Detroit Metro Times: [A]n investigative reporter for WDIV-TV, said he was abruptly fired from the news station for a racial…

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$5 trillion says that LGBT discrimination at work is against federal law

Image by mibapict from Pixabay Today, we’re taking a break from wage-and-hour compliance because I’m not sure that you can continue to handle that much fun. How else would you interpret so many people (un)subscribing to this blog yesterday? Instead, I want to talk about news of this brief that…

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The most fun you can have in a week with wage and hour compliance!!!

ImperfectTommy / Edmond Meinfelder [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsWhat’s better than a three-part series on wage-and-hour compliance? (Other than an apple cider tour with Ned Flanders.) Don’t answer that question! Ok, here’s the thing. Most of you are on vacation this July 4th week and won’t read this post.…

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What form of discrimination do juries hate most? (But, you’re probably doing the least to address.)

Photo By: Senior Airman Donald Hudson (https://www.defense.gov/observe/photo-gallery/igphoto/2001841357/) A former federal judge once told me that of all the forms of employment discrimination that juries hate, bias against military personnel tops the list. What is USERRA? The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) is a federal law…