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The Employer Handbook BlogNew employment laws may not just expose employers to liability; they may double it!
Among the top employment issues that companies will need to navigate in 2024 is enforcing laws that have more recently taken effect.
Articles Posted in Human Resources Policies
What’s the worst that could happen to a former employee who hacks your network and lies to the feds about it?
Well, I don’t know if it’s the worst, but getting sentenced to 24 months in prison for a network intrusion and making false statements to a government agency sounds pretty bad. Continue reading
POLL RESULTS (sort of): Only about half of employers still have COVID-19 policies
Although the vast majority of businesses implemented a written COVID-19 policy at one time or another, many have eliminated or stopped updating those policies. Continue reading
POLL: Does your business have a COVID-19 policy?
The other day, a partner asked me about COVID-19 policies and how clients may still implement them.
Candidly, it wasn’t something I’d thought about for a while. Continue reading
Five plant managers learned the hard way that betting on which workers will get COVID-19 doesn’t pay
About three years ago, seven plant managers lost their jobs following an investigation into allegations of betting on how many workers there would get sick from the coronavirus. Shortly before losing their jobs, a handful did not receive a bonus they felt the company improperly withheld. So they sued.
What happens when five of the most unsympathetic plaintiffs in recent memory claim state wage payment law violations? Continue reading
I know when you can start filing EEO-1 Component 1 Data. Here’s a hint: 🎃🍬🍫
Yes, soon after I start recycling old blog posts next month about the liability risks that employees and their poor costume choices present for employers, all private-sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees meeting specific criteria can start submitting demographic workforce data, including data by job category and sex and race or ethnicity, to the EEOC. Continue reading
Take me out to the ballgame.
Or, more precisely, my oldest son and I will be traveling from Philly to Cincinnati to watch the Marlins take on the Reds in a 12:35 matinee. Continue reading
A new bill will greenlight federal employment for marijuana users
Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting “Weeding through the Haze: State and Federal Marijuana Laws and Implications” at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s 2023 EXCEL Training Conference in Washington, DC.
Between now and then, I’ll need to update my slide deck. Continue reading