I had trouble sleeping last night. If you read yesterday’s post, you know that when deciding between a post about an NFL cheerleader who was fired for risque pictures mailed to the Indianapolis Colts versus labor law and Twitter, I chose labor law and Twitter. ***stupid Twitter!*** I won’t make…
I was considering three topics for today’s post: A teacher who was fired for watching 67 seconds of pornography; This smokin-hot cheerleader, fired for the NSFW-version of the photo on the right, who has filed a national-origin discrimination claim against the Indianapolis Colts; or A National Labor Relations Board…
The U.S. Department of Labor has created apps to allow non-exempt employees to record their time on their iPhones and iPads. For more on this app and how it may impact companies with hourly employees, read on past the jump. * * * What will the app do? According to the DOL:…
If you guessed 15 minutes, you would be right, according to a recent decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. And you don’t need to point a gun at the employee’s head? A rusty fork in the doo-dads “knowing and intelligent” waiver based on a “totality of the circumstances”…
Steroids are so 2010. With high profile baseball players like Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera and Cleveland’s Shin-Soo Choo getting arrested this year for DUI, Major League Baseball aims to crack down on certain off-the-field conduct that could give the sport a black eye. More on how this could factor into…
On April 29, a unanimous three-member panel (including Member Hayes) agreed to set aside the results of an election that the Service Employees International Union lost by a 131-82 vote. How is that good news for employers? Find out, after the jump. * * * According to the BNA Daily…
More than a quarter of people surveyed from around the world are going online in their hunt for work, but many are growing nervous about the potential career fallout from personal content on social networking sites, according to a recent survey. Highlights of this report after the jump… *…
Earlier this week, I wrote about a nurse who was fired and denied unemployment compensation benefits because, instead of medicating a patient, she was busy posting Facebook updates about a colleague who had soiled herself. Oy! But that’s nothing compared to the New England emergency room doctor who was…
In keeping with The Employer Handbook tradition (and so as not to reverse any good black and gold mojo), once again, I will follow a Bruins OT playoff win… (cue the music…) …with a look at an employee’s right to review his/her personnel file. Last week, we explored whether Pennsylvania…
If you read this blog (or just about any other labor and employment law blog), you know that social media policies have fallen under recent heightened scrutiny because of the chilling effect they could have on employees discussing terms and conditions of employment (e.g., wages, hours, etc.) with each other…