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The Employer Handbook Blog“Smokers and other nicotine users need not apply.” Is that even legal?
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Because I’m a lawyer, I’ll say it depends. Except, I won’t charge you 0.1 hours of my time to say it. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Hiring & Firing
A worker complained on Twitter about a $6 holiday gift from his employer. It didn’t end well.
A Toronto man who worked for the same company for six years no longer works there. All because of a tweet and a bottle of barbecue sauce. Continue reading
“How can the same s**t happen to the same guy twice?”
John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. Continue reading
This former employee who was fired for social media posts will get his job back. But, your employees probably won’t.
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Raymond Wambsgans from Akron Ohio, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
She responded with words to the effect of, “When are employees going to learn that there is no such thing as free speech?”
Amen. Continue reading
ADA accommodations don’t require eliminating essential job functions, like coming to work punctually.
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Regular, in-person attendance is generally critical to performing one’s job. So, when an employee exhausts her twelve weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act only to miss another 33 days of work (resulting in a 59% absentee rate), one’s job security may be in jeopardy.
But, let’s back up a sec, as I tell you the facts of this disability discrimination case I read last night. Continue reading
Yes, if you get fired (or not hired) for holding a PA medical marijuana card, you can sue.
With a big ‘ol tip of the cap to Phil Miles, Esq. over at Lawffice Space (here) and Daniel Cummins at Tort Talk (here), we’ve got some news that should interest Pennsylvania employers. Continue reading
Can you fire a supervisor accused of sexual harassment without investigating first? Yep.
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Today, I want to tell you about a lifeguard who worked for several years for an employer in Washington, DC.
This great federal court decision I read offers seven keys to a proper severance agreement
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A lawyer claimed that his employer had discriminated against him based on his race, color, gender, and age, when it terminated his employment and filled a position nearly identical to that which he held prior to his termination with a younger, African-American woman. So he sued.
Oh, I forgot one important fact. By the time he sued, the lawyer-plaintiff had already signed a severance agreement and release (the “Release”). Continue reading
Can a company require new employees not to bash it on Glassdoor? Is that legal?
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