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.” One of your FMLA-eligible employees walks into HR one day and says that she has a serious health condition and…
Last week, Justin Bieber was deposed in an action stemming from an alleged attack by his bodyguard on a member of the paparazzi. Here and pasted below is the video that’s been making the rounds on the internet: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsLrZg160s So, how does this impact your workplace? Don’t let your employee…
Late last year, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission scored a big victory when a federal judge found apparel company Abercrombie & Fitch liable for religious discrimination when it fired a Muslim employee for wearing her hijab (a religious headscarf) in the workplace, rather than accommodating her religious beliefs.…
Back in 2011, when y’all were Tebowing, planking and winning, I was blogging about this case where an employer allegedly updated its employee’s Facebook page and tweeted from her Twitter account without her permission while she was on leave from work following a car accident. The Stored Communications Act…
[Cue music] “Yes! Meyer is finally playing Five Finger Death Punch!” — Not a single one of you We’ve had some pretty wild, prurient, “where does he get his material” workplace posts here at The Employer Handbook. Remember the one about the female accountant who won the right to legally…
Yesterday, I read this post from Sara Hutchins Jodka at Employer Law Report about how to pay employees for Daylight Savings Time work and comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Then I ate a big bowl of pulled pork and I thought to myself, “Damn, I’m feeling lazy tonight!…
In a few weeks, the National Football League owners are going to consider a proposed rule governing the use of the “N”-word during a football game. If the rule goes into effect, any team with a player who uses the “N”-word during a game, will be assessed a 15-yard penalty.…
But, faced with those facts, that didn’t stop one employer from moving for summary judgment and asking the court to dismiss a female employee’s claims of sexual harassment. Could the company have possibly prevailed? Find out after the jump… Oh wait, before we jump, I left out the part where…
I’ll bet the father didn’t “like” that so much. Get it? Dad is the former headmaster at a school in Florida. When the school failed to renew his employment contract, he sued for age discrimination and retaliation. Eventually the two sides settled, with the school to pay $10,000 in back…
The other day, Deadspin tweeted this headline: Carlos Martinez’s Twitter favorites: a big ol’ wall of porn http://t.co/SA3qss6nrr — Deadspin (@Deadspin) February 24, 2014 Now, before you say anything, remember, I read Deadspin for their keen insight into the world of sports. And sometimes that means reading a post about…