Remember those “what’s wrong with this picture” games that we played as children? Something like this.
Last night, I found the employment law equivalent from this recent Sixth Circuit opinion. Continue reading
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I conduct Fair Labor Standards Act (wage-and-hour) audits for clients. Among other things, I help them determine whether they are paying at least the minimum wage to all employees. But, more importantly, I confirm which employees are entitled to overtime (time-and-a-half for working more than 40 hours in a workweek) and ensure that the company is paying these employees all that they are owed. Continue reading
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This definitely caught me flat-footed. Continue reading
I want to give a little shoutout to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with whom I am spending the day today in Atlanta at the 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference.
So, today’s post is chock full of recent EEOC news and notes. Continue reading
*Just about everything; enough to fill a 90-minute presentation that I’m giving tomorrow. Continue reading
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De Wicker Paradise from New Rochelle, United States – Omni Consumer Products — Fight Club Soap – Logo Bar outdoor wicker is a favorite of ours! So is this find by tind., CC BY 2.0, Ligazón
The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.
Well, it may not be the first rule in New Jersey workplaces – we’ve got plenty of those and many more added in the past 12 months – but the most recent rule in New Jersey: you don’t talk about salary history when interviewing job candidates. Continue reading
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Company A and Company B work together from time to time on certain projects. Both companies have invested a lot of time, money, and other resources into their respective workforces and do not want to risk employees switching companies. So, they enter into a no-hire or no-poach agreement; e.g., a ‘contract’ between two businesses where they agree not to hire the others’ employees during their business relationship and for some time after it ends.
Is that legal? Continue reading
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Yesterday, I received an unsolicited email from a company called Pluto.
Pluto claims to offer a text message harassment training course that helps startups get compliant in less than 5 minutes a day. Continue reading
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Sympathetic: sym·pa·thet·ic Continue reading
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