That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Employee comes to you with a leave request in which he potentially qualifies for FMLA. Must you provide it? Break…
Let’s say that you have an employee whom the Americans with Disabilities Act would consider disabled and to whom you have afforded a reasonable accommodation for a long time. Maybe it’s a few years of light duty to accommodate your employee’s bad back. Maybe it’s keeping your employee with medically-documented…
Last month, a daughter’s Facebook post cost her father an $80K age-discrimination settlement (more on that here). Last week, with some Facebook shenanigans, the plaintiff in a sexual harassment case screwed herself over. (See what I did there?) Heather Painter used to work for Dr. Aaron Atwood D.D.S. According to Ms.…
Yesterday, I read with interest Jon Hyman’s post at the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog about how Target has employed a 14-minute training video to help keep its workplace union free. Gawker has posted a copy of the video here. Like a bear crapping in the woods, Gawker pokes fun of…
Last night, after I arrived home, put my jacket away, and walked into the kitchen, something immediately caught my eye. On the kitchen table was a “Country Sweets Gourmet Cookie Dough” fundraising flyer from my son’s school. My choice of five different flavors of raw cookie dough in a 48-ounce…
When the Fair Credit Reporting Act comes a knock knock knockin’ on HR’s door, who among you, will answer the call? Fear not, kids. Cinch on your big boy/girl underpants! My colleague, Stacey Schor, in this post, has outlined a recent federal court decision that provides valuable guidance on how…
Has the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Vance v. Ball State been keeping you up at night? *** logs IP numbers; obtains restraining orders *** Well, ok. I can see why some of you are sour on the 2013 Supreme Court decision holding that an employee is a “supervisor” for purposes…
I can actually feel the daggers that some of you are staring into me. So, please allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is H-O explain. How to demonstrate sexual harassment When an employee sues for sexual harassment, he/she must show four things: he or she was subjected to conduct…
So, by now, you’ve likely read the news, first reported on Wednesday night by The New York Times reporters Michael Shear and Steven Greenhouse that “Obama Will Seek Broad Expansion of Overtime Pay”. Messrs. Shear and Greenhouse indicated that, yesterday, President Barack Obama was to the direct the U.S. Department of…
Yesterday, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a public meeting at which it discussed, well, you read the lede. Don’t miss this one employers; the full 411 is after the jump… * * * (Yeah, I’m playing Bjork. Haters can take a hike…) As I was saying, yesterday,…