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The Employer Handbook Blog“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
Your New Jersey HR Compliance Checklist for January 1, 2020📝☑️
Practicing employment law in the State of New Jersey is both a blessing and a curse. I’ll clarify that. It’s great for me because New Jersey passes new employment laws faster than Joey Chestnut eats Nathan’s Hot Dogs on the Fourth of July. So, rather than put off installing the 24-carat gold retractable Bloggerdome roof until the Fall, we’re moving up construction to the Spring.
It’s not so good for you — and by ‘you,’ I mean those of you that don’t employ anyone in the Garden State — because I keep blogging about these new laws.
And today is no different. Continue reading
“How can the same s**t happen to the same guy twice?”
John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. Continue reading
You’ll never guess which state has joined NY and CA by banning grooming and hairstyle discrimination at work
Water is wet. Grass is green. And, yes, New Jersey remains the employee-rights capital of the East. Continue reading
Finally, the EEOC has come around on arbitration agreements as a condition of employment
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And it only took 22 years. Continue reading