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The Employer Handbook BlogPay attention HR! Transgender employees may have ADA (disability) rights too.
My decision to sit at the computer and begin blogging at 10:48 PM on a Sunday has backfired on me, for sure. Continue reading
There have been some huge, recent LGBT developments impacting your workplace.
Most notably, HR Dive interviewed me on supporting transgender employees at work during their transition!!! Continue reading
Someone who doesn’t know that they have a serious health condition can still get FMLA, you guys.
The Family and Medical Leave Act enables eligible employees to take leave for up to 12 weeks in a 12-month period for their own serious health condition, among other things.
How do you know if an employee is requesting FMLA leave? Do they have to say “F-M-L-A”? Heck no! But, they do have to provide enough information to permit an employer to conclude that the employee needs leave. But, what happens when the employee doesn’t say much? Rather, the biggest change is their workplace demeanor. Could that be enough to put an employer on notice?
Could a change in demeanor be enough to put an employer on notice? And, what if the employee doesn’t recognize that she even has a serious health condition?
Grab your pearls for clutching and read on…
There are betting things to say in a job applicant’s rejection email than “age will matter”.
Now, where did I put yesterday’s .gif? Oh, there it is.
Well, I sorta botched yesterday’s post about Facebook and that employee’s $1.5M jury verdict
And, by sorta, I mean definitely.
Oof! Continue reading
How a fired employee’s Facebook posts about Obama and “a thug” led to a $1.5M jury award — UPDATED
[After publishing this post, I was contacted by counsel for the City of Charlotte. It seems that some of the facts in both this post and the underlying reports upon which I based this post don’t tell the full story. So is this … (pause) … “Fake News”?!? Here is a follow-up post I ran based on the information the City attorney provided me.] Continue reading
NLRB: Many of your employee handbook policies are probably unlawful.
![By Roger Cook and Don Shanosky (Unknown) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Trash_Can_23.svg/200px-Trash_Can_23.svg.png "By Roger Cook and Don Shanosky (Unknown) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons")
As is often the case when a Republican sits in the Oval Office, the National Labor Relations Board tilts employer-friendly. Indeed, once President Trump’s two nominees fill two vacancies on the Board, Republicans will hold a Board majority for the first time in 9 years.
Until then, I picture the more employee-friendly Board remaining from the Obama years going out in a blaze of glory.
Lighters up! Continue reading
Lawsuit: P. Diddy did it (sexual harassment) right after he and his house guests did it (sex).
When others go high, I go low.
Wait a minute! I got that backwards didn’t I? Dammit! That explains why I didn’t come up with “In Firing Employees, A Bit of Humanity Still Helps.” It’s a pragmatic post inspired by recent events from employment lawyer and blogger, Daniel Schwartz.
Instead, I get my HR-compliance news from a TMZ story entitled, “I HAD TO SERVE HIS POST-SEX MEALS… He Served Up His Junk.” Welp, there’s only one thing left to do, I guess.
Yes, I’d better double down. Continue reading
8th Cir: Ok to tell a Middle Eastern worker to “go back home, go to your country.”
As you’ll find out down below, “Minnesota nice” only goes so far dontchaknow.
New Philly bill aims to shut down local businesses engaging in “severe and repeated” discrimination
This bill introduced in Philadelphia City Council back in April is quietly making its way closer to Mayor Kenney’s desk. And, it could mean the end of the road for Philadelphia businesses that believe that they can discriminate with impunity.