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If you employ progressive discipline, don’t slap your employees with a bearded dragon

And by bearded dragon, I mean, well, bearded dragon. This warning holds true even if you operate a reptile store. Chris Joseph of the Broward/Palm Beach New Times reports (here) that a Florida reptile store owner was “arrested on battery and cruelty to animal charges on Friday after he allegedly hit…

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SHRM, US Chamber, NAM, and other business groups sue to block new NLRB election rules

It’s on now! Late yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a press release in which it announced that it had filed this complaint in federal court against the National Labor Relations Board to strike the Board’s election rules, passed last month, which would create faster union elections. More…

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It’s prolly not retaliation when you fire an employee who masturbates in your parking lot

Or, at least, when you honestly believe that one of your employees is masturbating in the parking lot. (Unless, of course, you’re like by buddy Fred, who operates Parking Lot Self-Gratification, LLC). Let’s just pretend that parenthetical remained in my head, ok? After the jump, it’s a lesson on the…

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“Your Asperger’s got in the way of your ability to interact with your boss, and we are tired of it.”

I tell you, folks. When a school janitor, the plaintiff in this case, claimed that the school principal uttered the words in the lede above, I felt a stirring within. Literally, the second those words (allegedly) formed on the principal’s lips, my Spidey Bloggy-senses told me that I’d be able to…