Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5b8dd93a846d78c9078b45c4) Meet the new forms; same as the old forms. Well, except for the new expiration date. Yes, that’s right. The U.S. Department of Labor has taken the existing FMLA forms and updated “Expires: 6/30/2018” in the upper right-hand corner of each form to “Expires: 8/31/2021.” Now,…
Other than the crappy WiFi aboard this cruise ship, that was the low-light. A chicken eating chicken – even with those lovely Bahamian spices – is bad.But, it’s not as bad as the nurse who reportedly posted in an anti-vaxxer Facebook group about giving her own son measles from an infected…
Stardate August 29, 2018. I found a 4G network and am typing this blog post at sea before I lose the network. Stay with me Verizon! How confident are you that your attendance policy complies with the FMLA? If it’s anything less than, “Damn right it does,” check out this…
Yep. So says the DOL in a brand new Opinion Letter released this week. No go win that blue pie piece in the Trivial Pursuit – HR Compliance Edition. PS – Day Three at sea and the WiFi on the cruise ship remains poor. I’m trying unionize the crew to…
We’ll try again tomorrow.
By Nederlands Instituut voor de Classificatie voor Audiovisueel Materiaal (NICAM) (http://www.kijkwijzer.nl/upload/download_pc/7.pdf) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsBy the time you read this, I should be blissfully cruising in the Atlantic outside the range of any cell towers. However, between now (Saturday afternoon) and Monday, I am feverishly punching out 5 blog…
Here’s a pro tip for you: The next time you land an awesome internship, avoid exchanging tweets similar to the redacted ones in the screenshot up there. Especially with someone who is on the council that oversees the company with which you just received the internship. This pro tip applies…
By Gooddeedsday [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia CommonsDo you know that proverb “no good deed goes unpunished”? This isn’t that situation. “There was no point in continuing the training.” Last week, the EEOC announced that it was suing an employer for disability discrimination after it fired an employee with…
Public Domain, Link It’s right there in the statute. Under New Jersey and Delaware state law, you can’t discriminate against an employee based on his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. Now, you won’t find the words “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” anywhere in the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act. But, starting…
Georges Biard [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia CommonsOver the weekend, there were several reports (including this one from Kim Severson at the New York Times) that Asia Argento paid out a large settlement to a man who accused Ms. Argento of sexually assaulting him in a hotel room when he…