Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/twitter-facebook-together-292994/) I haven’t covered a social media firing in a while. Here’s one I read about yesterday. It’s a doozy! Laura Wagner reporting at Deadspin’s The Concourse has more on the story (here): Yesterday, HuffPost fired a recently hired, Los Angeles-based social media editor after her managers…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/cheering-happy-jumping-people-297419/) We get it, New Jersey, you’re the most progressive. Like, “Hold my drink, Bernie Sanders” progressive. On Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) announced that he had signed into law a sweeping expansion to the state’s paid family leave program. Here are some more details from…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/softball-baseball-ball-sport-game-372979/) We’re talkin’ softball. [cue music] Recently, I read about an EEOC settlement with a Maryland school that forked over $41,000 to settle a gender-discrimination claim. Here’s more from the EEOC’s press release: According to the suit, the [] School hired a male as head softball coach…
David Maiolo [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThere are a couple of new(ish) workplace bills pending in Congress. Would you like to hear more about them? Paycheck Fairness Act Late last month, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act. If it passes, the Paycheck Fairness Act will amend…
Image Credit: Google Street View According to multiple news reports, on Friday, shortly after the Henry Pratt Company communicated to a 15-year employee that the company was ending his employment, he began shooting. All told, he killed five employees (in a five-minute span). After police arrived, the shooter exchanged gunfire.…
Y’all are too much with that #HRValentine hashtag on Twitter.
Absolutely, Mark! I’m guilty. If you’ve seen me speak at HR events about the Family and Medical Leave Act or the Americans with Disabilities Act, you’ve probably heard me quip about employees seeking FMLA leave or leave from work as an ADA accommodation because work is stressing them out. Fortunately, the people…
Execution Sling Hanging Hangman Knot Penalty Rope Many years ago, a man called me asking if I would represent him in a discrimination action against a company. Now, you know me. I’m a management-side lawyer. I write a blog called The Employer Handbook. But, then he mentioned that someone had…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/yada-yada-board-insignificance-1432923/) Let’s imagine that one of your female co-workers gets promoted. Shortly afterward, some of your male co-workers spread false rumors about how their recently-promoted colleague must have slept her way to the top. Do you think that: (a) these rumors are gender-based, or (b) based upon false…
Image Credit: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/marijuana-scales-legalization-drugs-2754249/) “Let’s see,” I said to myself. “I want to blog about this important, brand new medical marijuana employment law decision. This is a burgeoning area of the law, and this particular decision will enlighten my readers like few others I’ve written about.” “Yeah, but unless you…