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Proposed bill banning credit checks on employees and applicants reintroduced

Second verse, same as the first. Back in March, I reported here that a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, known as the Equal Employment for All Act, would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees…

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Telling an employee her “big fat ass needs to concentrate on losing weight” is not discrimination

Let’s talk (alleged) big butts and discrimination after the jump… (Sir Mix-a-Lot is gonna be feelin’ this post). * * * Hey yo! Find me another employment-law blogger spinning Sir Mix-a-Lot. Yeah, that’s what I thought. So, show me some love, take a few seconds, and vote for The Employer Handbook…

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Your President/CEO may have to pay your company’s wage and hour debts herself

Well, that certainly sucks. Even worse than the time I found out that Santa Claus MacGyver wasn’t a real person. (My psychiatrist says that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. I’m not so sure…) But seriously, I thought that the purpose of a limited liability company was…

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FACT OR FICTION: Employers may discriminate based on family status

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.” Yesterday, I read this opinion about a white man who claimed that he lost out on a middle school boys…

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Camouflage toilet paper and 9 of the other most unusual coworker holiday gifts

Leave it to Career Builder to run a survey seeking the most unusual co-worker holiday gifts. Camouflage toilet paper made the list. (Well, at least it wasn’t used, amirite?) The complete list follows after the jump… * * * According to this survey from CareerBuilder.com, about one quarter of your…

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GUEST POST: What HR needs to know about how immigration law impacts firing decisions

Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s Emily Neumann. Emily has practiced immigration law in Texas since 2005, representing both employers and immigrants. Neumann writes a blog on immigration law (immigrationgirl.com) and shares updates on Twitter (@immigrationgirl) and her Facebook page to help her clients stay…

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HR’s 2013 Performance Review (via SHRM’s #nextchat)

Yesterday, We Know Next, the muscle-bound social media arm of the Society for Human Resource Management, hosted a NextChat session on Twitter. Oh, you don’t know NextChat? NextChat is a one-hour session on Twitter, which runs every Wednesday from 3-4 PM EST on a topic du jour — that’s the…