EverythingSuperMario [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThen, maybe just give up and move on with your life. I want to tell you a story. It’s about a woman in Ohio, well-educated woman in Ohio. You see, this woman initially graduated from college in 1996 with a degree in journalism. In…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/oops-reminder-post-note-sticker-1432954/) You just approved leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act for your employee so that she can attend to her sick mother who is in the emergency room at the hospital. You used the Notice of Eligibility and Rights & Responsibilities — good for you…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/photos/achievement-agreement-business-3385068/) Last year in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the Supreme Court narrowly concluded that a court should enforce an agreement between an employer and employee to arbitrate claims individually notwithstanding workers’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act to engage in protected concerted activity. That decision…
Image Credit: SHRM.org Don’t worry about it. SHRM has you covered with a full recap, which saves my dainty blogging fingers from doing a lot of typing today. So, thank you for the opportunity to participate yesterday, SHRM, and for doing the heavy lifting today.
User:VasilievVV and user:Jarekt [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsOne of the benefits of being a client of this handsome employment lawyer/blogger is a weekly email with links to recent HR news and notes, as well as a bonus HR-compliance tip. The rest of you deadbeats are stuck with only five free weekly…
Image Credit: SHRM.org Last night, after the big Sixers win over the Raptors, I checked out the EEOC Newsroom to hunt for blog fodder for today. That’s when I noticed that four of the five most recent EEOC press releases addressed claims of disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/mobile-text-phone-sms-980030/) Here’s the thing. If you’re managers relax the rule for their direct reports, good luck trying to use that rule as a basis to terminate someone’s employment. Consider this recent Fourth Circuit opinion. It involves an African American employee — let’s call him ‘Plaintiff’ — who…
Multiple reports (1, 2, 3), are confirming that District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled yesterday that the deadline for filing your EEO-1 filing will be September 30, 2019. (For more on this EEO-1 circus, click here.) That’s it. That’s all I’ve got for you today. Well, unless you like HR-compliance…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5cc10d55846d7897318b4581) In 2010, the Supreme Court held in Stolt-Nielsen SA v. AnimalFeeds International that a court may not compel class-action arbitration when an arbitration agreement is silent on the availability of such arbitration. Last year, in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the Supreme Court issued another employer-friendly…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/photos/question-question-mark-survey-2736480/) Oh, did I mention that the plaintiff was the HR Manager? Bruh… And she made an incendiary Facebook post. Well, that I can believe. (I’m friends on Facebook with several HR folks.) Then again, I don’t recall seeing a post like this. Let’s check out the…