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Wanna know where the EEOC will focus its enforcement efforts? Age discrimination.
Yep, the signs are all there. Continue reading
While unfair stereotypes continue to fuel age bias in the U.S., here are ten ways to avoid them.
It was right at the moment that I thought that I’d recovered from Saturday night’s disco inferno and baseball extravaganza, when I realized, yesterday, that I’d paired DC Comics with Marvel by coming to work in Batman socks and Guardians of the Galaxy II boxer shorts.
Hopefully, my reader won’t think any less of me.
Bloomberg’s in depth coverage of social media sex shenanigans at work is too good not to share
I know good clickbait when I see it.
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586,860 and 3/4 reasons not to question the sincerity of an employee’s religious beliefs
Nearly four years ago, I blogged here about a complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against a West Virginia coal company. The lawsuit alleged that the employer failed to accommodate an employee who requested not to use a biometric hand scanner to track time and attendance.
Why? Because of the relationship between hand-scanning technology and the Mark of the Beast and Antichrist discussed in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament.
Of course. Continue reading
Court says, yes, you can fire a worker whom you believe made up a discrimination claim at work.
Got that?
It’s not just people who fabricate complaints of discrimination at work, but those whom you believe fabricated discrimination claims.
Everybody, roar it with me, “Yassssss!”
The 6 Ways “Covfefe” Can Improve HR Compliance
It all began last week with a (possible) typographical error in a tweet from our 45th President, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.”
At first, President Trump’s tweet confused us; “covfefe” even stumped a spelling bee champ while creating a spike in demand for novelty license plates.
But then President Trump doubled down on Twitter, “Who can figure out the true meaning of “covfefe” ??? Enjoy!” Well, his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, told reporters, “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant.”
Folks, you’re in luck! As part of that small group of people, I know exactly what President Trump met. You see, “covfefe” is the solution to all of your HR-compliance problems.
I don’t recall the ADA saying anything about reasonable-er accommodations.
Hopefully, I didn’t miss something. (Oh, so you’re saying that, maybe, “reasonable-er” isn’t a word.)
Well, I do have a point here. Somewhere. Continue reading
FMLA & ADA: Two peas in a pod
I love my readers.
Like my youngest daughter with a pile of peas, my readers devour HR-compliance wonk and nuance. Continue reading