A 90s hip hop lesson on the Americans with Disabilities Act? 🎵🎧🎙 Yes, please. Back in the mid-90s, amidst a brewing East Coast/West Coast rap battle, a diminutive MC named Skee Lo became a one-hit-wonder with a lighthearted track called “I Wish.” In that track, the diminutive Mr. Lo wishes…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay According to Bloomberg Law, “broad liability protections that shield most or all businesses [from COVID-19 liability are in] roughly half of all states now.” So let’s say that one of your employees is immunocompromised with an underlying disability, and she seeks an accommodation to mitigate…
Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons I know this should be a “Monday” post, but, oh, what the heck. Over the past several days, I’ve read several articles about providing religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine. The Dean of the UC-Berkely School of Law says…
Image Credit: pxfuel.com When many people think of a “motorcycle enthusiast,” they imagine someone in sunglasses, a leather vest, jeans, boots, and lots of facial hair. And while that describes my Aunt Helen, most folks picture someone like the guy in the photo. By the way, I don’t have an…
Image Credit: Piqsels.com Early last week, California and New York City required their workers to get a COVID-19 vaccination or mask up and submit to regular testing. On Thursday, the federal government issued the same edit to its employees. Then on Monday, the State of New Jersey announced that all…
Image by S K from Pixabay Technically, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth. But that’s not really the point of this post. So, I’ll digress. I tend to overuse the phrase “your mileage may vary” on this blog. Often, I use it when comparing the laws of different states. But, I also…
Image Credit: MaxPixel.net A white employee complains in writing that a colleague called his biracial grand-niece a “monkey” and texted him racially offensive comments about his coworkers. Within months, the employer fired the complainant. Is this retaliation? A federal court in Pennsylvania said no. It reasoned that while Title VII…
Yesterday, I asked, “Will your business mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for employees?” Fortunately, no one went as far into the deep end as the gentleman whom Chris Cuomo interviewed on CNN 🤯. Otherwise, the poll results were about as I expected. Here they are: 6.7% – We already do 14% –…
Image by Michi-Nordlicht from Pixabay On Tuesday, I told you how the Department of Veterans Administration planned to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all its employees. Well, in today’s edition of COVID-19 safety one-upmanship, NBC News is reporting that “President Joe Biden is expected to announce [today] that federal workers will…
Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view Take a look at that map. If you are in an orange or red county — about 63% of the map — those are considered areas of substantial or high transmission of the Delta variant of COVID-19. So, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends…