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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
Lawsuit: Company managers wagered on how many employees will get coronavirus
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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
Heads up, PA employers! The Commonwealth just strengthened its COVID-19 mask and testing rules 😷👩⚕️👨⚕️
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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
The EEOC has a new 114-page religious discrimination playbook. But, 2 of those pages got me like 🤔🤔🤔
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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
The COVID-19 Conundrum: Can you suspend employees for attending big Thanksgiving dinners?
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That would make things interesting, wouldn’t it?
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