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Is this the worst batch of retaliatory emails I’ve ever read? Maybe.
Print this post if you want to discourage your managers and supervisor from putting dumb sh*t in emails that might one day get shown to a jury and end up costing your business a mint. Continue reading
Here are 150,000 reasons not to play doctor when your employee tells you that she may have cancer.
In 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued two employers for terminating a title clerk working at their automobile dealership allegedly over fears that she might have cancer. Continue reading
RUMOR: The feds are discussing more COVID-19 paid leave for private employers
I really wanted to blog about the policemen who got fired for catching Pokémon rather than criminals. But, sigh, I’ll save that for a future blog post. Continue reading
“Liberal” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. Here are three times he joined “conservative” justices when deciding employment law cases.
Yesterday, several news outlets reported that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of this term. President Bill Clinton appointed Justice Breyer in 1994. Justice Breyer sided with OSHA and HHS in the vaccine mandate cases earlier this month. Indeed, Breyer is considered one of the more “liberal” justices.
But did you know that some (or all) of the “conservative” justices joined in significant employment law decisions that Justice Breyer authored? Continue reading
OSHA: The ETS is dead as a temporary standard. Long live the ETS as a proposed rule!
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced yesterday that it has decided to withdraw the vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard issued on Nov. 5, 2021, covering large employers with 100 or more employees. The withdrawal is effective today.
But check the fine print. Continue reading
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet No. 84
I’m going to share with you the Mysterious Case of the Disappearing U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet No. 84.
A federal judge entered a nationwide injunction on yet another federal vaccine mandate
WTH is even left to enjoin anyway? Continue reading
Thinking about reversing your new COVID-19 vaccine and testing requirements? Could be a trend.
And some of the largest companies are leading it. Continue reading
UK is lifting many COVID-19 restrictions. Should we be doing the same?
According to the Associated Press (here) and the BBC (here), Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the end of COVID-19 “Plan B.” Continue reading