Image by Shonda Ranson from Pixabay
Late last week, the EEOC revised and released three publications that discuss how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) apply to veteran employees and those who employ them.
Continue reading
Image Credit: reassign by Ralf Schmitzer from the Noun Project
Imagine that you have an employee who becomes disabled and can no longer perform the job’s essential functions. Being the good employer that you are, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, you engage the employee in an interactive dialogue to explore possible reasonable accommodations. After a lot of back and forth, the only possibility is a transfer to another director position.
Except, here’s the thing. Continue reading
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay
Traditionally, on the day before Thanksgiving, I release my list of the top Thanksgiving foods. But we’re doing things a little differently this year. Continue reading
Amy and Eric are talking COVID-19 and Thanksgiving on YouTube. Only in 2020…
I had intended to keep the typing to a minimum today by sending you over to The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel, where I posted this video in which my colleague, Amy Epstein Gluck, and I tried to answer the question: “How should businesses handle employee travel for Thanksgiving?”
Then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf went and signed this new Executive Order yesterday that significantly changes how local employers will do business for the foreseeable future. Continue reading
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Continue reading
Image Credit: Photofunia.com
Imagine if one of your plant managers organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19. Continue reading
.jpg)
Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pennsylvania businesses with employees who report to the office will need to update their workplace policies in light of some new rules effective this week. Continue reading
Sowlos, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced here that it had released for public comment this new draft guidance on religious discrimination in the workplace. Continue reading
Luigi Crespo from Frederick, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
That would make things interesting, wouldn’t it?
Continue reading
Image Credit: Photofunia.com
Immigration and employment law often go hand in hand.
Continue reading
The Employer Handbook Blog