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🚨HR ALERT🚨 If your employee handbook is missing a “Pregnancy Accommodations” policy, fix that ASAP!

pregnant woman by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
If you missed The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour on Friday, head on over to The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel — be sure to subscribe while you are there — and check out the replay. Among the topics that Robin Shea and I discussed was the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Continue reading
How could a 12-year-old statement breathe life into a claim for unequal pay? I’ll explain…

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Did you know that each time you pay someone less based on their gender, it is a separate violation of the law? Continue reading
Ok, so what employment-related claims can a man with a pregnant wife file?
Yesterday, I told you that a man couldn’t bring a pregnancy bias claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But, a bunch of you actual and aspiring employee-rights attorneys had ideas to prove me wrong.
Can a man bring a pregnancy discrimination claim? (Yeah, you read that right.)
One of your employees shows up at Human Resources with a laundry list of complaints.
It must be one of those days that end in a “y.”
Two for Tuesday? Or just a heads up that The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour returns this Friday at Noon ET

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Last Friday, I had a great time with special guest Abigail Morrow on The Employee Handbook Zoom Office Hour. (If you missed it, check out the replay here on The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel.)
So let’s run it back this Friday at Noon ET on Zoom.
My vaccinated employee had close contact with someone who has COVID-19. Should s/he quarantine?

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Good question.
Oh, you want me to answer? Fine, I’m up to it.
What do you do when you suspect that an employee’s doctor note is 🐄💩???
Whoa! Slow down! There’s an unusual amount of smoking billowing from the blog servers.
Let me check on this, and I’ll be right back. Continue reading
Will the National Labor Relations Board save Scabby the Rat from extermination? 🐭

Scabby the Rat, the infamous union picket line protest symbol, fears no cat — especially not this one. Scabby feared no man either, except for Peter Robb, the former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
GC Robb, you see, was on a mission to deflate and exterminate ‘Ol Scabby for good. Continue reading
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