The Employer Handbook Blog

Your EEO-1 will now take 3.4 hours longer to complete

March 6, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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You can address your ‘thank you’ note to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Continue reading

So glad you asked. I’ll tell you all about my first year at FisherBroyles, the largest cloud-based law firm in the world.

March 5, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

“Eric, congratulations on the new gig with Fisher — it’s FisherBroyles, right?” they said with scrunched, skeptical faces that didn’t quite match their words of encouragement.

I got a lot of that when, after 12 years at a large, traditional law firm, I catapulted to the first and largest full-service cloud-based law firm in the world.

‘Catapulted’ is intentional. Sure, you can soar to new heights. But, the ultimate impact can be hard and messy.

So, how has the first year of practice been at FisherBroyles? Continue reading

New overtime rules are coming (yes, really this time!). Here are eight things employers need to know to prepare.

March 4, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Remember that f**king fire drill?

Back in 2016, the United States Department of Labor proposed a rule that would have made millions of workers eligible to earn overtime for the first time by raising the salary-level that exempts certain individuals from overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

And employers panicked. Many businesses converted salaried employees to hourly. Others got raises. Some received both. It was a mess. The only happy people were the employment lawyers.

But, then a federal judge in Texas entered a nationwide injunction against the proposed DOL rule, and everything went away, except those raises and pay changes that you could exactly stuff back into the tube of toothpaste.

Welcome to Round Two

Does your company use no-hire agreements? Better call a lawyer. Maybe a criminal lawyer.

March 1, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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In most states, non-competition agreements between an employer and employee are legal, as long as there is some form of consideration (like money) to support them.

But, what about a no-hire or no-poach agreement; e.g., a ‘contract’ between two businesses where one (or both) agrees not to hire the others’ employees during their business relationship and for some time after it ends?

That must be legal too, right?

Probably not. Continue reading

This parking company may have assumed that a deaf applicant wasn’t right for a valet job. But, what happens when you assume? 🤔

February 28, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Imagine that you operate a valet parking service at a large hotel and you’re looking to hire a parking attendant. Your 10 am interview arrives. You say, “good morning.” He responds in sign language.

He’s deaf.

A deaf parking attendant?!?

This, right here, will restore your faith in humanity.

February 27, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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When you read an employment law blog like mine, odds are you’re going to see a post about an employer that did something bad, or at least is accused of doing something terrible.

This post is different.