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Eric not pictured (probably off blogging somewhere)
And, I already ruined this post with a sports metaphor. Dammit!
30,000 reasons to review your job applications now for unlawful questions
There is a growing trend across the country for employers to remove job-application questions about criminal-record history. Ban the Box notwithstanding, other common job application no-no’s continue to trip up certain employers.
Republicans toss up a Hail Mary to stop the new DOL overtime rules
On December 1, 2016, the new Department of Labor overtime rules will take effect. Yesterday, Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) announced (here) new legislation under the Congressional Review Act to to stop the overtime rules dead in their tracks.
You ever see that scene in Minions where the caveman tries to stop a bear with a flyswatter?
Keep preparing for the new overtime rules.
New EEOC lawsuit highlights the discrimination risks of mandatory flu shots
Last week, the EEOC announced (here) that it had filed this lawsuit against a Massachusetts employer, in which it alleges that the company violated federal law when it refused to effectively accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs.
It’s a wicked pissah!
The EEOC wants your 2¢ before giving its 2¢ on national origin discrimination, which will be free
Kinda like this blog. I’d settle for a sandwich to call it even. Maybe some ketchup packets.
Don’t tear up those arbitration agreements with your employees just yet.
Its seems likes ages ago that I blogged about a Seventh Circuit decision, where the appellate court held that an employment-arbitration agreement with a class-action waiver violates the National Labor Relations Act.
Uh, Eric, it was Tuesday.
***stabs inner voice with a Q-Tip***
Let’s make it official! What say we meet IRL at SHRM Annual Conference? #SHRM16
Around this time last year, I invited readers to connect at the 2015 SHRM Annual Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. Notwithstanding my try-too-hard-to-be-whimsically-irreverent approach, I made some great connections.
Now, one year wiser, I’m going to keep it sincere and humble.
It’s cases like this that tempt me to become a plaintiff’s employment lawyer
Like when referring to the plaintiff (57) and his two co-workers (61 and 67), a boss allegedly remarks, “It’s time you got rid of those old son of a bitches.”
Age discrimination, maybe?
Do you force employees to arbitrate class-action claims? Then, you should read this…
As I think about all of the agreements with arbitration provisions that I’ve drafted for clients over the years.
***wipes brow, tugs collar, clutches pearls***
Can an employee go out for a beer while on intermittent FMLA leave?
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This post seems timely, seeing as most of your employees claiming a Friday-of-Memorial-Day-Weekend migraine are going to do this anyway.
Kidding, I’m not that jaded.
(You guys; however, I’m not so sure)…