Yep, if you need me this morning, I’ll be at Fort Sam Houston, giving my spiel to U.S. Army South and some folks from Guantanamo Bay on social media and the workplace. How cool is that!
(In a dorky lawyer kinda way).
While that’s going down, let me catch you up with some other recent HR-compliance nuggets:
As a corollary to yesterday’s post about David Lopez stepping down as EEOC General Counsel —
*** Googles “corollary” — swish! ***
— I bring you news of two recent court decisions advancing LGBT rights at work.
Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced (here) that its General Counsel, David Lopez, would be leaving the agency in December.
On average, organizations gave mothers 41 paid days of maternity leave, compared with 22 paid days of paternity leave for fathers. That statistic comes from 2016 Paid Leave in the Workplace, a survey recently conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management.
Does this disparity demonstrate discrimination against men?
A few weeks ago, I blogged here about a federal agency — one that rhymes with EEOB — reaching a 7-figure settlement with its workers of alleged Fair Labor Standards Act overtime violations involving comp time.
Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion, in which it addressed another tricky situation involving overtime offsets.
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In other words, don’t take your foot off the gas pedal preparing for the pending U.S. Department of Labor’s Overtime Rules.
Either that, or clutch your pearls a little tighter.
Yup. EEO-1’s, open enrollment. That HR life’s a beach, amirite? Pass me a frozen beverage.
Oh, it’s Monday? Better make it two.
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