It’s funny. (Not “ha ha!” funny. Just, employment-law blogger, wry-smile funny). I read different surveys about social media and hiring and the numbers vary greatly. For every survey that indicates that employers are not using social media to vet candidates, you get the one I read last night from CareerBuilder.com,…
Telework is among the array of possible reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act that may enable an employee with a disability to perform the essential functions of the job. Now, as a federal appellate court confirmed last month, there are situations in which telework is not a reasonable accommodation; namely, where…
Raise your hand if you don’t own a smartphone. According to this Pew survey, 64% of American adults own smartphones. And that’s just the adults. So, it should come as no surprise that, in the brief amount of time it takes someone to pull a phone of a pocket, bring it…
Y’all enjoy yesterday’s Thursday Giveaway. (Y’all, huh. Look at me. You can take the boy out of Texas, but…). Anyway, if you missed out on getting a copy of that background check PowerPoint and webinar, just send me 1.21 gigawatts, Libyan-grade plutonium, and a selfie stick email me and I’ll still hook you up.…
Because I’m exhausted after Wednesday’s DFW–>PHL–>Phillies, instead of a beefy post, you can have the PowerPoint and webinar I delivered last week for HR Direct entitled “The State of Hiring: How to Comply With Ban the Box and Other Hiring Laws.” Just email me and it’s yours.
If you are a Philadelphia employer, check out my post from February and this poster. While the new law requires employers of 10 or more to provide paid sick leave, those with 9 or few employees must still provide unpaid sick leave. If you haven’t done so already, update your employee…
Over the weekend, while enjoying my tea and krumpets twenty minutes alone in the bathroom free from four screaming kids, I read this story in U.K.’s Daily Mail about a Facebook post from a fast-food chain employee. Shortly after news hit about two police officers gettign shot and killed, she…
Last year, I channelled Bill Clinton in this blog post about how courts rarely recognize a single incident or two as creating what the law deems a hostile work environment. Yeah, about that. Even a few isolated comments can create a hostile work environment. In Boyer-Liberto v. Fontainebleu Corp. (opinion here), the full panel…
Folks, let me give you a little free Friday HR pro tip: If a female employee complains to a female manager that another male manager is sexually harassing her, it’s not ok to for the female manager to respond thusly, “He’s a guy and you work with guys. Ignore it and…
Did I ever tell you about the one in college we called “The Mad Pooper”? (Actually, we didn’t use the word “Pooper.” We used another word that better expressed our distaste for this individual). It was during my freshman year of college. More often than not after a night of…