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How a few missing employee handbook words may open your FMLA floodgates
You wouldn’t want to make the same egregious mistake as a Michigan employer. After the jump, I’ll discuss the colossal screw-up and help you avoid it.
Don’t worry. I’ll wait and listen to some Foo Fighters while you go grab your FMLA policy.
[Two bad words near the end of the Foo Fighters song. So, if you’re going to play it at work. Well, don’t play it at work].
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FMLA hits home
A gentle reminder that eligible employees can take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for an immediate family member (spouse, child, or parent — but not a parent “in-law”) with a serious health condition, like a bad respiratory illness that requires hospitalization.
Please send some good vibes to my little guy, Pierce.
Now THAT’s a good one! The most unique late-to-work excuses revealed.
On the heels of the excuses we’ve been hearing this week from meteorologists on the east coast about the transformation of Snowmageddon to #Snowperbole…
— well, at least one weatherperson owned it —
…What better way to end the week than with a list of creative excuses; namely, CareerBuilder.com’s top 10 from its recent Most Bizarre Late-to-Work Excuses survey. While “I got jammed up at a pajama-jammy-jam” didn’t make the list, here’s what did:
No, really. Demanding an employee’s social security number isn’t religious discrimination
Remember that blog post I had from July of last year, the one you contemplated getting tattooed on your back.
Yeah, you know the one. This one, silly. About the Fundamentalist Christian, who, upon filling out his new-employee paperwork, refused to provide a social security number because it would cause him to have the “Mark of the Beast.” So, he sought a religious accommodation, which the company refused to provide because obtaining a social security number is a federal requirement.
Welp, the employee appealed the decision to a federal appellate court?
How you think that turned out? Find out after the jump…
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Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday. EEOC hung sex discrimination on you.
I’ve got some apples reverse sex discrimination on the menu today.
How you like dem apples?
More after the jump…
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FACT OR FICTION: Snow + Office Closed = FMLA Day
That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.”
(Indeed, today, I’m so damn lazy, that I’m republishing a post from last year)
One of your employees is currently using FMLA leave. Today, due to the winter storm, you’ve decided to close the office.
One state is banning personal use of social media at work.
Wait, seriously?
Yep. No employee of the State of South Carolina will be allowed to use social media on the job, “unless specifically required by the agency to perform a job function.”
More on this law, and reaction from a leading blogger (not me), after the jump…
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152,000 reasons for employers to consider discrimination with drug testing and haircuts
After the jump, what employers can learn from a possibly botched drug test and the failure to hire a Rastafarian
(Or an excuse for me to make gratuitous True Romance references).
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A hospital may have broken the law by NOT hiring a convicted meth dealer.
I see your wild sexual harassment lawsuit and, after the jump, raise you this doozie…
Better call, Saul! Even Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were like, WTH?!?
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