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The Employer Handbook BlogCan you ban your employees from wearing Nike apparel at work?
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Controversy. Continue reading
If you’re considering adding pole dancing to your new-employee orientation, you should reconsider.
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Allow me to educate you, limerick style. Continue reading
So, you want to change the essential functions of a particular job, do you? Let’s talk ADA.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits an employer from discriminating against a qualified individual with a disability. What is a “qualified individual”? It’s someone who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation? Ok, what’s an “essential job function”?
Or better yet, can nonessential functions of a particular job later become essential ones?
That’s what we’re going to explore today. Continue reading
Bookmark This: Seven Resources to Answer Some of Your Employment Questions
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Oh, I’ve got your hookup today. Continue reading
I’ve got links to the new FMLA forms from the U.S. Department of Labor
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Meet the new forms; same as the old forms. Continue reading
I can’t unsee a chicken eating jerk chicken
Other than the crappy WiFi aboard this cruise ship, that was the low-light.
A chicken eating chicken – even with those lovely Bahamian spices – is bad. Continue reading
Oh, look. It’s DOL guidance on FMLA and no-fault attendance policies
Stardate August 29, 2018. I found a 4G network and am typing this blog post at sea before I lose the network. Stay with me Verizon!
How confident are you that your attendance policy complies with the FMLA? If it’s anything less than, “Damn right it does,” check out this new Opinion Letter from the DOL on the interplay between FMLA and no-fault attendance policies.
With luck, I’ll be back tomorrow.
Do organ donors qualify for FMLA leave?
Yep. So says the DOL in a brand new Opinion Letter released this week. No go win that blue pie piece in the Trivial Pursuit – HR Compliance Edition.
PS – Day Three at sea and the WiFi on the cruise ship remains poor. I’m trying unionize the crew to demand better bandwidth. In the meantime, I’m blogging from my cell phone because I must really like you folks.
Sorry, folks. Cruise ship internet is trash today.
We’ll try again tomorrow.
16 states have asked the Supreme Court to limit LGBT rights at work. Which 16, you ask?
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Will I sacrifice quality for quantity? Since you’re not paying me anything to blog, you bet I will. Hopefully, you won’t see it that way. But, if feel otherwise, go jump in a lake I’m sorry. Continue reading