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The Employer Handbook Blog“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” … and Wife Swapping
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What I am about to share with you is based on a true story. Well, bits of it anyway.
I don’t recall the ADA saying anything about reasonable-er accommodations.
Hopefully, I didn’t miss something. (Oh, so you’re saying that, maybe, “reasonable-er” isn’t a word.)
Well, I do have a point here. Somewhere. Continue reading
FMLA & ADA: Two peas in a pod
I love my readers.
Like my youngest daughter with a pile of peas, my readers devour HR-compliance wonk and nuance. Continue reading
Pay 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.
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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