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And most of them revolve around technology. According to a CareerBuilder survey, here are the top ten:

And by coffee, I mean turkey legs and frozen blueberry-mango rum lemonade. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down… You see that badge over there? You know what I had to do to get that badge?Buy the full version of Photoshop Spike the Kool-Aid of everyone on the SHRM Annual Conference Speaker…

Now, before I get to the FMLA, let me talk about another recent decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court. On Monday, the high court ruled (here) that: Claims asserted under the “improper quality of patient care” provision of New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act “must be premised upon a…

Share the news: President Obama will prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. — The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 16, 2014 The White House announced the news yesterday via Twitter. Just two years ago, the White House indicated that President Obama would not…

So much for that case of Monday writer’s block… From a recent EEOC press release: According to the EEOC’s suit, Disability Network denied a deaf independent living specialist reasonable accommodations and then fired him. For example, the nonprofit refused the employee his requests for TTY equipment, a video phone and…

What with me gabbing on about firefighters afraid of fighting fires, butt grabs, and some Delaware lawyer starving himself over social media, I missed this National Labor Relations Board decision, in which the Board basically held that, as long as you don’t go too far and pull a Latrell Sprewell,…

In two weeks, at the SHRM Annual Conference, I’ll be presenting “Meeting the Challenges That Leaves of Absence and Attendance Issues Present Under the FMLA and ADA.”  The good news is that I have 75 minutes of HR greatness planned for my SHRM sesh. The bad news is that my…

If I could drink up your collective skepticism when it comes to these Americans with Disabilities Act cases… …I’d need my stomach pumped. Let’s see. There’s the one about the utilityman who couldn’t climb utility poles, but had an ADA claim against a utility company. And then who can forget…

Many cities in the Mid-Atlantic region (Philadelphia, Newark) have passed legislation that makes it illegal for employers to inquire about criminal history early on in the job application / interview process. The State of Delaware too has passed this so-called “ban the box” rule. Last week, a New Jersey Senate…

Welcome to Alabama, where they see your one-grope rule and raise you two grabs of the derriere. Why? Because, according to this recent federal court opinion, the average female employee would not find getting her ass grabbed twice by a male supervisor to be offensive. Now remember, that for a…