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The Employer Handbook BlogDoes complying with the ADA mean offering short breaks to employees who have angry outbursts?
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Let’s say that you have an employee prone to angry outbursts. Sound familiar? Continue reading
Articles Posted in Discrimination and Unlawful Harassment
I have a copy of the EEOC’s ‘top secret, classified, confidential’* priorities for 2020. Want to see it?
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*And by ‘top secret, classified, confidential,’ I mean readily available from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s publicly accessible website (here).
This, right here, is some of the most messed up retaliation (allegedly). And it all settled for a cool milli.
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Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Continue reading
Governor Phil Murphy wants an “overhaul” of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination
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And I want to try “The Perfect Bite” that Binging With Babish cooked up last week on his YouTube channel. Here is what his duck carbonara looked like.
But, Governor Murphy’s proposed changes to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) aren’t nearly as aspirational. Continue reading
A federal court just killed collection of EEO-1 employee pay data dead. Happy Tuesday.
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It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up! magazine. Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine.
I guess Notorious B.I.G. wasn’t exactly rapping about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requirement for employers with one hundred or more employees to file with the EEOC the “Employer Information Report EEO-1”. Continue reading
But, the baby! 27,000 more reasons not to stop pregnant women from working.
Nearly three years ago to the day, I provided 55,000 reasons to allow your pregnant employees to be exposed to toxic chemicals at work. Continue reading
Bookmark This! How many employees must we have to be covered under certain employment laws?
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It’s one of the most common questions that I get from clients and readers. With so many employment laws out there, it’s not easy to keep track of what those laws say — let alone which ones you may have to follow. Continue reading
I’m going to teach you — for free — a $100,000 lesson on workplace accommodations
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Workplace accommodations can be easy.
For example, when an employee with carpal tunnel syndrome requests an ergonomic keyboard to perform his job, and his job involves a lot of typing, you get him the keyboard.
Or maybe you have an employee with Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is a type of depression that is exacerbated by gray overcast skies and poor indoor lighting. Several inexpensive lighting products can enable that employee to perform the essential functions of the job.
But, where employers often run into problems is with leave as an accommodation. Job transfers too.
How do you prove discrimination (when you’re accused of inappropriate relations with a student)?
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Beats me.
(Still, it seems like an excellent excuse to get back to basics and explain how courts analyze discrimination claims). Continue reading
Pat yourselves on the back, employers. EEOC Charges dipped to a new 27-year low!!!📉
I’m sorry if you were expecting wild stories of employee shenanigans today. Yesterday, I asked for your stories, and I got nothin’! Y’all must work in the most compliant workplaces in America.
Speaking of which… Continue reading