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The Employer Handbook BlogCan your business dodge an EEOC discrimination claim by closing and opening under a new name?
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If you got to this page via Google, please don’t call or email me. 😉
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It took until December, but I just read about the most ‘2020’ social media firing of the year.
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Plus, I get to start the week right by citing a source called “Russian Machine Never Breaks.”
***chef’s kiss***
For how much did one of the most important employment cases of 2020 just settle?
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On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate based on sex, also prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status. It was a landmark opinion.
One of the actions consolidated into the Bostock action was EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes. The EEOC argued specifically that Title VII prohibits discrimination based on transgender status. On November 30, 2020, it settled.
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Just when you thought you had it all figured out, the CDC updated its ‘close contact’ guidance (again!)
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You and me, we’re a lot alike. Continue reading
Let’s explore piece rates, the FLSA, and the best music videos of the 80s.
No, I haven’t been drinking. Continue reading
Want three ways to improve employment of U.S. veterans with disabilities? The EEOC has got your back.
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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.
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HELP! My employee with a disability wants a reassignment to an open position. (But, we have a better internal candidate.)
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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
Which of these 32 items on your Thanksgiving Dinner Table reigns supreme?
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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
Vlog and Blog COMBO! COVID-19 and Thanksgiving. Plus, a new telecommuting mandate in PA
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
That time when all the employment lawyers got paid and the litigants got zilch!
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Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Continue reading