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SCOOP: The DOL has issued final joint-employer rules
While you guys were watching the NFL playoffs yesterday, a little birdie told me that the U.S. Department of Labor had announced its final rule to update its joint-employer regulations.
Here’s the skinny. Continue reading
GOTCHA! You won’t believe how one company unraveled an employee’s ‘flat tire’ absence excuse
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Fair warning, this post is more about pettiness than employment law. Continue reading
If DOL opinion letters turn you on, sit down, maybe grab a cigarette, and read this blog post.
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The U.S. Department of Labor could have rested on its overtime-rule laurels in 2020. Instead, the DOL has wasted little time releasing three new opinion letters in 2020. I’ll break them down for you below.
“Smokers and other nicotine users need not apply.” Is that even legal?
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Because I’m a lawyer, I’ll say it depends. Except, I won’t charge you 0.1 hours of my time to say it. Continue reading
A worker complained on Twitter about a $6 holiday gift from his employer. It didn’t end well.
A Toronto man who worked for the same company for six years no longer works there. All because of a tweet and a bottle of barbecue sauce. Continue reading
Federal appellate court instructs NLRB to reconsider whether it’s okay for an employee to use sexist language
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Last Summer, the National Labor Relations Board asked the public to help it decide when employees should be allowed to make racist or sexist comments at work.
I would have assumed that the answer is, you know, “never.” But, then again, I don’t make the rules. Continue reading
The results are in! Here’s what HR readers did to prepare their companies for the new DOL overtime rules.
“Pardon me. But would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?”
“But, of course.” Continue reading
POLL: What did your business do to prepare for the new DOL overtime rules?
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Happy New Year, everyone. Or, as we employment law nerds say, ‘Day 2’ of the new overtime rule today.
(Actually, no one says that except for this nerd.)
The Best of The Employer Handbook in 2019 confirms that you readers are STONE COLD SAVAGES!
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2019 was a busy year for HR compliance. That’s a true statement even if we forget about all that went down in New Jersey. Continue reading