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Is this the worst batch of retaliatory emails I’ve ever read? Maybe.
Print this post if you want to discourage your managers and supervisor from putting dumb sh*t in emails that might one day get shown to a jury and end up costing your business a mint. Continue reading
Here are 150,000 reasons not to play doctor when your employee tells you that she may have cancer.
In 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued two employers for terminating a title clerk working at their automobile dealership allegedly over fears that she might have cancer. Continue reading
“Liberal” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. Here are three times he joined “conservative” justices when deciding employment law cases.
Yesterday, several news outlets reported that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of this term. President Bill Clinton appointed Justice Breyer in 1994. Justice Breyer sided with OSHA and HHS in the vaccine mandate cases earlier this month. Indeed, Breyer is considered one of the more “liberal” justices.
But did you know that some (or all) of the “conservative” justices joined in significant employment law decisions that Justice Breyer authored? Continue reading
This employer provided a flu shot accommodation that DID NOT work. And it still WON the lawsuit. HOW?!?
Here’s a reminder that the duty to accommodate an employee under the Americans with Disabilities Act neither requires providing the employee’s preferred accommodation nor an accommodation that is 100% successful.
Instead, it’s about doing what’s reasonable based on the information available at the time.
I’ll explain. Continue reading
The EEOC updated its COVID-19 guidance again with new information on retaliation
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While nerds like me were flooding LinkedIn with status updates about Sixth Circuit this and OSHA ETS that, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was hosting a secret “virtual dialogue” with the employer Illuminati about retaliation updating its COVID-19 Technical Assistance to include additional information on retaliation.
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Is indefinite unpaid leave irreparably harmful to employees that don’t get vaccinated?
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On Monday, a Texas federal court dealt with a nuanced issue relating to vaccine mandates. Continue reading
A federal judge made it really dang hard to prove medical marijuana discrimination
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What a 🥴 private school in Florida can teach us about COVID-19 medical accommodations
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While warming up benching 315 lbs. at the gym yesterday, I listened to The Howard Stern Show.