By BuzzFeed – BuzzFeed Press, converted to SVG in Adobe Illustrator, Public Domain, Link You may have heard the news last week that Buzzfeed was laying off 15% of its workforce. You can read more about that here. Over the weekend, about 600 Buzzfeed employees petitioned management to pay out accrued,…
Image Credit: Pxhere.com (https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1445849) Last week, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued this decision in which it held that an outside job applicant cannot pursue a disparate impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. What does this mean in plain English? Think “unintentional discrimination.” In the Seventh Circuit case, the…
Won’t you help little Ivy Meyer achieve her Girl Scout Cookies sales goal? It’s that time of year again. Coworkers have begun bombarding you with requests to purchase Girl Scout Cookies. So, in that spirit, let’s tackle: Whether unions will start organizing your workplace if you relax your no-solicitation policy…
Warning: This post has nothing to do with employment law. However, it is about the law and football. And, we’ll all have a good laugh about it. If you watched last weekend’s NFC Championship Game between the New Orleans Saints and Los Angeles Rams, you know that the Saints got…
Yep, that’s me about eight years ago posing with my first-born and an inflatable rat. His name is Scabby. The rat, that is. And he may be going away for good soon. Who is Scabby The Rat? According to Scabby The Rat’s Twitter profile — because, of course — Scabby was “born…
By xrmap flag collection – Based on image from xrmap flag collection 2.7, colors from image at World Flag Database, Public Domain, Link In the United States, medical marijuana use is legal in 33 states and the District of Columbia. However, the laws governing the use of medical marijuana vary…
See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsToday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Many will write about how our society continues to struggle with race relations and discrimination in the 50+ years since Dr. King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech (video; text). This past weekend didn’t help.…
By Darwinek – self-made using Image:Flag of New Jersey.svg and Image:USA New Jersey location map.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link On Wednesday, I blogged about how Democrats in the U.S. Senate were introducing a new bill to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour. Yesterday,…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/share-price-stock-exchange-business-1013626/) It’s easier than you think. But, you need to speak the right language. And that language is money. In 2016, The EEOC Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace concluded that there is a compelling business case for stopping and preventing harassment.…
Copyright Free – Stock Free images. Public Domain image dedication. CC0 1.0 Universal Licence – http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ For nearly ten years, from September 1, 1997 through July 23, 2007, the federal minimum wage was $5.15 per hour. Three times in the following two years, the minimum wage rose, settling in at $7.25 per…