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The Employer Handbook BlogWoo boy! Y’all had some crazazy holiday parties!
While I must admit that I laughed more than I cringed, my readers came through with some tales of holiday parties gone haywire.
Here are some snippets: Continue reading
The EEOC hooks you up with a new ADA resource on mental health conditions
I know y’all are waiting with baited breath — wait, hold do you bait breath? Like a putting a worm on a fishing line or something?
***Googles***
Right, as I was saying, I know y’all are waiting with bated breath for me to publish all of those reader-submitted holiday-party “yowzas” I asked you to email me yesterday. But, let’s give that one more day to marinate — build the suspense.
(You can still get in the on the party. Just read yesterday’s post and holler at your boy).
Oh, do tell. Share with me your most cringeworthy holiday party HR story!
Inspired by a quality discussion in my Facebook feed today, I’m thinking that some of you HR-compliance geeks probably have some good holiday party stories to share with me.
That’s right, for once, I’m going to live vicariously through you.
Pretty soon, asking salary-history questions in Philly will get you sued.
Like requesting swiss cheese on your cheesesteak — way to go John Kerry — pretty soon, asking about a candidate’s salary history will be verboten too.
Trump’s new DOL pick has zero damns to give about the new overtime rules
Yesterday, President Elect Donald J. Trump tapped Andy Puzder to run the Department of Labor.
Over on that Twitter jawn, I was asked for my hot take on what Mr. Puzder’s appointment as Secretary of Labor means for the DOL’s proposed overtime rules. Continue reading
Can you fire an employee whom you learn is “alt-right”?
What the heck do pistachios have to do with the Alternative Right also known as the “alt-right” or white nationalists?
Join me at 3 pm EST today on Twitter for a SHRM #nextchat on these dang DOL #OvertimeRules.
Today is your lucky day.
For, your see, I have received special permission from my Illuminati brothers and sisters to share with you the secret to navigating this morass that is the U.S. Department of Labor overtime rules and the recent nationwide injunction.
File the “blue collar workplace” defense to a hostile work environment in the trash can
When defending against a woman’s sexual harassment claim, I’ve found that “she was asking for it” is generally a bad defense. So bad, in fact, that you may just want to whip out the old checkbook instead.
Another crappy one, apparently, is trying to convince a judge that an industrial workplace setting is carte blanche to knuckle drag and generally act like pigs.
Also known as the “blue collar” defense.
The DOL wants to undo that #OvertimeRule injunction lickety-split!
December 1, 2016 was quite a day!
First, on the day that the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules would have taken affect, I blew up the U.S. Department of Labor‘s spot by winning my 5th ABA Blawg 100 award.
But, buried below the fold was this news that the DOL had appealed a Texas federal court’s nationwide injunction of its overtime rule.