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The Employer Handbook BlogSome belated #HRValentines💕🤣😂
Y’all are too much with that #HRValentine hashtag on Twitter. Continue reading
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Overtime: Two legal actions to reverse the outcome of the Saints-Rams NFC Championship Game
Warning: This post has nothing to do with employment law. However, it is about the law and football. And, we’ll all have a good laugh about it. Continue reading
Thank you to the readers for a fantastic 2018
Ashashyou [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons
Most notably because I changed firms.
After 12 great years at Dilworth Paxson LLP, I made the best move of my career by joining FisherBroyles, LLP. Continue reading
26 of the best last-minute stocking-stuffer ideas🎄🎁🎅
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Oh, that’s cute.
You clicking thinking that I would be inspiring you. Continue reading
Ranking turkey and the 19 best side dishes that you can serve on Thanksgiving – 2018 Edition
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Like last year, this year’s list is not up for debate. Don’t @ me. Continue reading
The Boston Red Sox are 2018 World Series Champions! (You weren’t expecting a blog post today, were you?)
If you operate a business in the New England region, maybe cut your employees a little slack on the FMLA call-outs today. Just sayin’.
I’ll be back with something a little more employment-law related tomorrow.
Before you decide to go aquatic in your office, watch this video. 🤣🤣🤣
The pool office. I died just a little.
SURVEY: Hey HR, in-house, and outside counsel! What do you think about mediation?
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Did you know that, for the past ten years, I have served as a volunteer mediator in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Mediation Program?
Separately, I’m also a private mediator, where I specialize in helping parties resolve all sorts of employment cases. Often, I’m called upon before arbitration or as an economical alternative to litigants using a retired judge as a mediator. Continue reading
From The Readers: The most extraordinary employee excuses for being late to work
By late! [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
And, don’t get me wrong, there were some good ones in there (e.g., “I was here, but I fell asleep in the parking lot.”), but I had a sneaking suspicion that some of the readers of this blog had heard some better ones.
I was right. Continue reading
Does “I hope this email finds you well” get on anyone else’s nerves? Or is it just me?
Hey, I was going to have a big recap of yesterday’s public hearing on harassment and sexual misconduct in the workplace at which I testified before the Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee. There’s a lot to discuss, maybe too much for a blog post. So, I plan to write a longer article for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
In the meantime, I want to rant quickly on something that has nothing to do with employment law or HR compliance, other than Human Resource professionals and attorneys are just as guilty of this as anyone else. Continue reading