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The Employer Handbook BlogA wake-up call to employers who raise vanilla affirmative defenses
Over at Texas Lawyer, Mike Maslanka has a short, but very important post about a recent case out of the
Is it sexual harassment if a visitor masturbates in the office?
So far, I love Justia.
Not only have they designed and set me up with The Employer Handbook,
but every week I get an email from them suggesting labor and employment
law stories that would make great blog posts.
Its storybook time, folks. Let’s read the juicy complaint together after the jump
5 ways for Pennsylvania employers to prevent workplace violence
I remember about a month ago reading a post on Daniel Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog about a shooting involving a Connecticut employer. Actually, at the time, I only skimmed the article. Nine dead. Tragic event. But it happened several hundred miles away.
On September 9, in Northeast Philly, my backyard, an employee who claimed she was fed up with years of constant harassment from neighbors and co-workers, returned to work after her shift had ended clutching a .357 magnum. According to a news report from Philly.com, she pointed the gun at two unarmed security guards — the employer had already taken some precautions against a potential episode of workplace violence — and ordered them to the gate. After the guards allowed the armed employee to enter, she went to a break room where she found four employees. After ordering one to leave, the disgruntled employee opened fire on the other three. Two died at the scene. One is in critical condition
I offer five preventative solutions after the jump…
Massachusetts is cuckoo, but I still love the Red Sox
Note: This article has nothing to do with the Red Sox. Nothing at all. Just Massachusetts. And Massachusetts employment law at that. It’s ok, though. Still worth a read IMHO. Good advice for my PA, NJ, and DE readers.
I was checking out Gruntled Employees — get it? “gruntled” … as in the opposite of disgruntled … yeah, anyway — and I came across a a new law requiring companies to notify employees about any potentially negative information added to their personnel files.
Hear me out. I’m on a roll with this…after the jump.
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How Facebook Can Make Or Break Your Case
In PA, NJ, and DE, when does religious expression take a backseat to workplace safety?
Your employee wears a head-covering. The employee’s head-covering is part of her religious practice.
You’re not one to interfere with an employee’s religious expressions, but you’re concerned that this head-covering creates a safety risk for both the employee and others. And maybe you run a prison and the head-covering could be used to smuggle in contraband.
After jump, I have some practice tips for you.
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Gary Oldman Would Have Trouble Landing A Security Job
Quick! Name three people with dreadlocks.
Easy.
- Gary Oldman as Drexl Spivey in “True Romance”
- Jon Favreau as Gutter in “PCU”
- Bob Marley
Of the three, how many practice the Rastafarian religion?
How the hell does this relate to employment law..let alone a security job? Find out after the jump…
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Another Juror Who Can’t Resist Facebook’s Siren Song
This is a labor and employment law blog. From time-to-time — ok, a LOT — I’ll post about social media policies and employee use of social media. A juror making a Facebook post during a trial has nothing to do with labor and employment law. However, I’m a sucker for these stories. So you’ll just have to suffer through it.
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Third Circuit Employment Law 101: Who Does The FMLA Cover?
My blog designers told me that if I want to build SEO — that’s Search Engine Optimization to you rookies — I’d better write about employment law issues affecting Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (duh!) and “optimize” my blog post titles with the keywords near the front.
Learn more about which employees are covered after the jump.
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Third Circuit Employment Law 101: Constructive Discharge
In some cases, a plaintiff will argue as part of his Title VII discrimination action that his former employer didn’t fire him. But rather he was constructively discharged. That’s fancy speak for being forced to resign.
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