Number 1: Eric often resorts to click-bait headlines, especially when his wife’s only post on this blog receives lots of hits and reader accolades. And, Eric’s only accolades sound something like, “Oh, in real life you’re not as short as I thought you’d be.” Ok, that doesn’t count as a revelation.…
Late last week, the District of Columbia advanced a bill aimed at ending “just in time” scheduling, where employers adjust employee work schedules for hourly workers — often within 24 hours or less — based on consumer demand. Perry Stein at The Washington Post reports here that the “Hours and Scheduling Stability…
In early March, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed its first lawsuits, in which it alleged that employer had violated Title VII by discriminating based on sexual orientation. Late last week, one of those lawsuits settled. Dani Kass from Law360 reports here that the EEOC and Pallet Cos., which does business as…
My husband asked me if I wanted to blog for him and I am really not sure why. My days consist of hearing things like, “knock knock”, “who’s there?”, “I eat mop” over and over again, not exactly scintillating fodder for an employment law blog. Seeing as I spend my…
In this unanimous 6-0 decision on Tuesday, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that employers cannot let any of the following motivate an employment decision: being single; getting engaged; marriage; a break up; divorce; or recently widowed All of this constitutes discrimination based on “marital status” under New Jersey’s Law…
“This issue has been giving me FMLA nightmares!” – Said absolutely no one in HR. Quit judging and just indulge me, would you? Indeed, leave it Your BlognessTM to disrupt your HR-compliance world. ***Sips week-old ambrosia*** Now, kiss the ring. ***Sleeps off said ambrosia*** Where was I? Oh yes,…
Welp, it looks like there’s still plenty of time for me to get my money’s worth on creepy Wikipedia stock images of sexual harassment — Thank you By Leon israel – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38824206. The click-bait headline, “No Evidence That Training Prevents Harassment, Finds EEOC Task Force,” from…
I’m coming at you from Washington, DC at the Society for Human Resource Management 2016 Annual Conference & Exposition. Me and 20,000 other HR professionals. If you’re at the conference, email me. I’ll likely be in the Bloggers’ Lounge, which is right around the corner from the SHRM Store and Conference Registration.…
Want to sit at the cool table next week at SHRM16? Well, I’ll be there. So, if you’d like the secret password or just want to meet a real blogging-employment-lawyer legend in person, email me. (Yes, I’ll have some swag). Or, head over the EEOC’s website, print out this Sample ADA Notice for your…
About two years ago, I blogged here about this decision from the NJ Superior Court, Appellate Division, where the court held that an employer and employee could agree to shorten the statute of limitations on employment claims. For example, in Rodriguez v. Raymours Furniture Company, Inc., conspicuously placed in its application materials,…