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Meanwhile, a former company executive was apparently fired because of his wife’s tweets

June 4, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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In case you missed it, last Friday I slipped into the vortex to detail the amazing story of the 76ers’ president of basketball operations and general manager, Bryan Colangelo, and five Twitter burner accounts with which he may be associated. Several of these accounts were used to talk smack about 76ers players, other league Executives, leak medical information, and more!

One theory that was gaining traction was that a few of the accounts were possibly linked to Colangelo’s wife!

That’s original. Except, maybe not. Continue reading

Grab your popcorn. We need to talk about this Bryan Colangelo Twitter burner-account bombshell.

June 1, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Stick with me here, folks. What I’m about to describe below is one heckuva bizarre social media spectacle. Continue reading

Have you advertised for a candidate with a maximum amount of experience? Could be age discrimination.

May 31, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Law firms, among other businesses, are notorious for seeking non-partner candidates with experience within a range of years.

“1-4 years,” “5-8 years,” “with about 10 years of experience.”

Could placing a cap on the number of years of experience be part of a code for “we don’t want to hire old people”? Continue reading

HR lessons from Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and ABC’s immediate cancellation of her show

May 30, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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On the same day that Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores to train its employees on implicit bias (full curriculum here), an outspoken Hollywood celebrity stole the headlines with an explicitly-racist tweet. Continue reading

SURVEY: If I custom-designed a one-hour HR-compliance session for you, what topic would you select?

May 29, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Can you help me out?

It’ll only take a sec. Continue reading

If you use a third-party to drug test job applicants, then stop what you’re doing and read this post!

May 25, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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On a clickbait scale of 1-10, maybe a 9.

Eric, what employment law and HR blogs do you read, dude?

May 24, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

I read these.

FREE WEBINAR and CLE: “Check-In: EEOC, DOL and NLRB Compliance—A Labor and Employment Law Roundtable” [June 6, 2018, 2-3 pm EDT]

May 23, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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The session, entitled “Check-In: EEOC, DOL and NLRB Compliance—A Labor and Employment Law Roundtable,” features an all-star panel of lawyers* and will explore each federal agency’s current compliance environment, enforcement priorities, practical guidelines for navigating difficult compliance issues and best practices. Continue reading

Eric, can I get a simple breakdown of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on class-action waivers?

May 22, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Sure, I can do that for you. Continue reading

Sorry, Busta Rhymes. You don’t get a “celebrity exception” for settling your wage-and-hour claim

May 21, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Generally, if a wage and hour dispute arises in the workplace, the parties need approval from either the U.S. Department of Labor or a federal court to resolve claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

When parties agree to resolve these claims as part of litigation, two things often happen:

A court must approve the settlement; and
The settlement agreement becomes public; i.e., no confidentiality.

Recently, Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. and the other parties to an FLSA action requested that a New York federal court relax the publicity rules by creating a “celebrity exception.”

Oh, you don’t know Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr.?

That’s Busta Rhymes!