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In recent years, many states have passed equal pay laws.
At the federal level, well… Continue reading
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Do we have to pay out accrued PTO to terminated employees?
The answer to that question (wait for it) — it depends on the state. Continue reading
Did an employee just discover an “FMLA loophole” to arbitration agreements?!?
Grab your pearls for clutching, and let’s get into this recent federal court decision to find out. Continue reading
PRO-TIP: If you want to arbitrate employment claims, have an arbitration agreement.
A client embroiled in an employment dispute with a former employee once asked me if we could force the employee into arbitration. So, I asked the client for a copy of the arbitration agreement that the individual had signed.
After an uncomfortably long pause, I went back to drafting the complaint to be filed in court. Continue reading
This is everything HR-related from last night’s State of the Union Address
If you went to the refrigerator to grab a cold beverage, you probably missed President Biden’s remarks about “beginning to restore the dignity of work.” Continue reading
Thinking about checking your employee’s Gmail account? Stop and read this first.
A couple of years ago, I blogged (here) about a company that installed spyware to monitor an employee’s Facebook Messenger activity, discovered a nefarious plot to secure client information and intellectual property, and obtained an injunction to stop the employee from starting a competing business.
But there are legal limits to employer sh*tbaggery surreptitiously monitoring employee communications. Continue reading
Fired an employee for violating a social media policy, did you? You may have to pay their credit card debt and mortgage payments.
On Friday’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour — catch the replay here if you missed it — we talked about 2022 changes in the law that could impact 2023 updates to your employee handbook. One talked briefly about how the pendulum at the National Labor Relations Board is swinging back toward employee rights.
What I failed to mention was that, with that shift, the Board is taking an aggressive position on how employers — union or not — may have to make employees whole for violations of the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”). Continue reading
Join us TODAY at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour: “The ESSENTIAL Employment Law Updates for 2023″
I don’t know about you, but the COVID-19 pandemic has warped my sense of timing. Still, it seems like a lot happened in 2022 that warrants some discussion about how employers should revise their employee handbooks for 2023.
Join us on Friday, 12/16/22 at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour: “The ESSENTIAL Employment Law Updates for 2023″
Are you ready for the employment law changes that 2023 has in store for your company?
If you’ve been thinking about updating your employee handbook and onboarding documents but don’t know where to begin (or end), we’ve got you, fam.
Join me and my employment law partners, Christina Bost Seaton, Amy Epstein Gluck, and Sid Steinberg, on Friday, December 16, 2022, at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour: “The ESSENTIAL Employment Law Updates for 2023.”
Here we go! It’s Cybersecurity 101 for HR Professionals and Employment Lawyers at Noon ET today on Zoom
I was skeptical whether readers of this blog — mostly HR professionals and attorneys — would register for this week’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour about … cybersecurity?!?
You proved me wrong. Continue reading