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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about employee opioid and marijuana use in the workplace
Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay
Last week, I participated on a panel on which a few of us employment lawyers discussed the pitfalls and best practices for dealing with issues related to employee opioid and marijuana use in the workplace. Continue reading
“An employee who has suffered a heart attack has enough to deal with without having to face unlawful discrimination and unemployment.”
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Continuing yesterday’s HR Compliance 101 theme, I revisited the EEOC Newsroom and found a recent release that addresses some considerations for when you have an employee that needs leave from work to treat for an illness.
Today’s lesson is a pragmatic and compassionate approach to providing accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Grab the tack hammer. It’s the ‘Tommy Boy’ of employment discrimination stupid.
Image Credit: Tommy Boy (screenshot from Vimeo.com)
Last week, I wavered about whether to include a line from Tommy Boy in a brief that I was drafting:
“I tell ya what. If you don’t know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I’ll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer.”
Ultimately, I decided that it was bad form. One could reasonably construe my use of that quote as antagonizing and bit snarky. Moi?!?
So, I’m using it for this blog post instead. Continue reading
You can’t fire an employee while on FMLA leave. Except when you can.
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Yesterday, I was reading this case about a woman who was fired while taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. She later sued, claiming FMLA interference; i.e., that her employer had denied her FMLA benefits to which she was otherwise entitled.
An employee fired while on FMLA leave is usually a recipe for trouble for the employer.
But not this time. Continue reading
The largest HR organization in the world ❤’s the DOL’s proposed overtime rules. Mostly.
The Society for Human Resource Management has commented on the United States Department of Labor‘s proposed changes to the current overtime rules.
Spoiler alert: SHRM likes ’em. Continue reading
The owner’s son was fired for peeing on a child’s cancer memorial. Lessons on accountability and off-duty conduct.
The owner of a plumbing company fired his son who is accused of urinating on a memorial dedicated to a boy who died from cancer in 2012. Continue reading
2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris just floated ‘the most aggressive equal pay proposal in history.’
United States Senate [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
What does a $3.3M jury verdict for race discrimination by a strip club look like? I’ll show you.
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It doesn’t look so good if you are the defendant. Continue reading