Human Resources Policies

Survey underscores gap in employer/employee BYOD privacy expectations

July 26, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

Thumbnail image for cartoonphone According to a recent survey from MobileIron, more than 4 in 5 employees in the US, UK, and Germany use their personal mobile phone or tablet for work. However, only 30% trust that their employer won’t go snooping into personal information on that device. But nearly the same percentage, 28%, take comfort in their belief that their employer can’t view corporate email sent and received on their personal device.

[In unrelated news, 28% of your workforce is dumber than these two.]

Ultimately, MobileIron concluded that employees consistently underestimate the visibility their employers have into company data, and consistently overestimate the visibility their employers have into personal data.

Supreme Court DOMA ruling “In Plain English”; impact on employers

June 27, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

Want an explanation of yesterday Supreme Court decision regarding challenges to California’s ban on same-sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, check out Amy Howe’s analysis “In Plain English” at SCOTUSblog.com.

And for more on yesterday’s decision and the impact it may have on your business, check out:

Lyle Denniston’s recap at SCOTUSblog.com
Danielle Kurtzleben’s report on the impact DOMA may have on your workplace
“DOMA Ruling Means Changes Loom for Employers” from Lauren Weber at WSJ.com
“Post-DOMA, Employers Face HR Challenges” from Shannon Green at Corporate Counsel
“Now What? Employer Benefits Obligations Post-DOMA” from Stephen Miller, CEBS at SHRM.org

New federal bill would expand FLSA to protect salaried new moms

May 30, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

Back in 2010, when the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act went into effect, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was amended to require a “reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child’s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk.”

Generally, employers are not required to compensate an employee for the break time to express milk, and an employer with fewer than 50 employees does not have to comply with the rule if it would pose an undue hardship.

One more minor caveat — of which I must admit, I was not aware — the law only covers non-exempt employees. (Although, I imagine that most businesses afford the same dignity to exempt employees too).

RIP: Philadelphia Paid Sick Leave Bill

April 18, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

** picks up phone dorks out in his bluetooth VOIP-compatible headset **

The Employer Handbook: “Nyello.”

Two Weeks Ago: “Hi Handbook. This is “Two Weeks Ago” calling. I wanted to let you know that Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter vetoed the “Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces” Bill, also known as the paid sick leave legislation. I read about that legislation on your blog back in February, and I was wondering when you were going to get around to updating your readers.”

GUEST POST: The Budding Burden of BYOD – Legal Issues Abound

February 28, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s Shannon Dorvall. Shannon is a practicing Los Angeles criminal attorney. She is a graduate of the University of Montana law school, and has argued cases in front of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. When she isn’t writing about law or actually practicing it, Shannon enjoys perfecting her cooking and catching up with a good book

(Want to guest blog at The Employer Handbook? Email me).

8 employee-handbook tips from Django Unchained. Yes, seriously.

February 21, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

My buds over at TLNT.com are running a series of movie-themed HR posts leading up to next week’s Oscar Awards.

Here is my submission. Enjoy!

Paid Sick Leave In Philadelphia – Round 2

February 7, 2013 | by Eric B. Meyer

Reporter: Rock, you got anything derogatory to say about the champ?

Rocky Balboa: Derogatory? Yeah. He’s great.

{Just needed to get that out of my system}

Carnival of HR: Cyber Monday Edition

November 21, 2012 | by Eric B. Meyer

Hi there.

To the two of you who are reading this today, welcome. And hello to the rest of you who are three drumsticks to the wind, joining us on Monday between incognito searches in office of Amazon.com’s Cyber Monday Deals.

(I won’t tell…)

But check it. While you browse back and forth on the qt, I’ll fill you up after the jump with ~~leftover sweet-potato casserole~~ dozens of great posts from some of the best HR bloggers around. And since it’s the season of giving, I’ll even hook you up with some shopping deals too.

It’s the Carnival of HR: Cyber Monday Edition!

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Four lessons employers can learn from the Petraeus scandal

November 20, 2012 | by Eric B. Meyer

Yeah, I know, this post would have been timely if posted last week, when the Petraeus news actually surfaced.

Well it is — err, was — timely. That is, my Dilworth Paxson colleague, Sehyung Lee, did post “Attennnnn-tion! 4 Important Lessons From the General Petraeus Scandal” over at the White Collar Defense Update Blog last week. I just didn’t get around to reading it until last Friday and, by then, it was too late to link to it from this blog, and…

You get the point right? (I’m too lazy to offer you any original content today).

Confession & Profession: When a co-worker overshares…

November 16, 2012 | by Eric B. Meyer

Do you call HR when someone says something you don’t like? What about if they confess a secret? What if you over hear something that wasn’t meant for your ears?

And what should HR do about it?

Last night, labor-and-employment-law attorney Daniel Schwartz, who blogs at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, Liz Ryan, founder and CEO of Human Workplace, and I joined The Huffington Post’s Nancy Redd on HuffPost Live answering these and other related HR/workplace questions.