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The Employer Handbook Blog3 essential FMLA tools for your HR-compliance arsenal
Three easy ways to tackle FMLA issues, without having to call someone like me. I’ll explain after the jump…
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This is my new go-to social-media-discovery judicial opinion
I assure you that what inspired this post had nothing to do with the facts of the case; namely:
- the female plaintiff claiming that her female-lawyer boss groped her; or
- the plantiff’s Facebook posts about pole-dancing and calling her breasts “milk factories”.
That’s all purely coincidental. Indeed, it sounds like something out of Costanza’s desk drawer.
Actually, I’m posting this to share a very well-reasoned social-media-discovery judicial opinion that is a big win for employers. You’ll see what I mean after the jump…
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By far, the WORST job in America (allegedly, of course)
No doubt, an early contender for 2013.
Kind’ve like The Lincoln Lawyer — except way less glamorous and with far more bounced paychecks and ejaculate. Yes, definitely more of those. Allegedly.
Read all about it here.
Religious accommodation required for an employee’s veganism? Maybe.
“Well, blow me down. Wimpy inspires a UK fast food chain,
and all I get is this crappy can. Why I oughta…“
and all I get is this crappy can. Why I oughta…“
In anticipation of the current flu season, you decided to mandate that all employees get immunized. The problem is that one of your employees, a vegan, who won’t ingest any animal or animal by-products — especially not the microwaveable scrapple-wrapped tripe pops I keep in the lunchroom freezer — refuses to get a flu shot because it’s against her religious and philosophical beliefs.
What’s her religion, you ask? Why veganism, of course.
The Employer Handbook turns 2; and the NLRB keeps hatin’ on employers
Whatcha get the blog for its birthday? Was it an iTunes subscription to Season One of Amish Mafia?
Don’t judge the blog. The blog doesn’t like to be judged.
After the jump, the selfless blog got you a recap of seven recent National Labor Relations Board decisions affecting your workplace…
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With employers like THIS, it’s gonna be a busy 2013 for the lawyers.
Same s**t; different year.
In 2010, an Ohio temp agency paid $650K as part of a Consent Agreement with the EEOC to settle claims that it had used code words in considering and assigning (or declining) job applicants. The code include words such as “chocolate cupcake” for young African American women, “hockey player” for young white males, “figure skater” for white females, “basketball player” for black males, and “small hands” for women in general.
Fast forward…
Michigan is now the fourth state to protect employee online privacy
The newest right-to-work state is also the latest to ban companies from accessing password-protected social media accounts.
On Friday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed House Bill 5523, prohibiting employers and educational institutions from asking applicants, employees and students for passwords and other account information used to access private internet and email accounts, including social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Here’s the skinny.
My 5 best posts of 2012, as selected by the world’s best readers*
*Do I need a disclaimer? Do I?
What a year for The Employer Handbook in 2012! I’m most pleased that, in our second year of existence, readership more than doubled. Although, sadly, the one 2011 reader I had from Papua New Guinea never returned in 2012. I hope she is ok. Yeah, she’s ok.
So, what did my readers enjoy most in 2012? Well, apparently, y’all like Polka music. Why else would this be the most-clicked item on The Employer Handbook? What a strange cultured bunch!
It’s legal to fire a female employee because of her “irresistible attraction”
Federal employee receives a 5-page written warning for . . . farting?!?
The Employer Handbook generally likes to end the year on a classy, high note. Consequently….
The Smoking Gun reports here that, earlier this month, the Social Security Administration issued this 5-page formal reprimand to an employee for his “awful and unpleasant” flatulence.
{As opposed to my ambrosial flatulence. So lovely.}