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Wanna know where the EEOC will focus its enforcement efforts? Age discrimination.
Yep, the signs are all there. Continue reading
He was fired for a Facebook post, but can he still collect unemployment benefits?
An employee who lost his job for badmouthing his boss on Facebook should still collect unemployment benefits, according to the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Ain’t that a wicked pissah.
While unfair stereotypes continue to fuel age bias in the U.S., here are ten ways to avoid them.
It was right at the moment that I thought that I’d recovered from Saturday night’s disco inferno and baseball extravaganza, when I realized, yesterday, that I’d paired DC Comics with Marvel by coming to work in Batman socks and Guardians of the Galaxy II boxer shorts.
Hopefully, my reader won’t think any less of me.
Bah Gawd! DOJ turns face and will support class-action waivers in Supreme Court battle
Consider this my attempt at “Serenity now” after chaperoning eight kids eight and younger at a Philadelphia Phillies game on Saturday. With a rain delay. And the tiny dancer featured above. Fortunately, we left the ballpark with all of the kids. I think.
Hopefully, my oldest son, Brooks, enjoyed his birthday.
Change is on the way in NJ to how employers can conduct background checks
On Tuesday, NJ Governor Chris Christie issued this press release announcing bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen New Jersey’s already existing ban the box law, known as “The Opportunity to Compete Act.” Continue reading
Bloomberg’s in depth coverage of social media sex shenanigans at work is too good not to share
I know good clickbait when I see it.
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586,860 and 3/4 reasons not to question the sincerity of an employee’s religious beliefs
Nearly four years ago, I blogged here about a complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against a West Virginia coal company. The lawsuit alleged that the employer failed to accommodate an employee who requested not to use a biometric hand scanner to track time and attendance.
Why? Because of the relationship between hand-scanning technology and the Mark of the Beast and Antichrist discussed in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament.
Of course. Continue reading