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The Employer Handbook BlogCan an employee fired for refusing a mandatory workplace vaccination collect unemployment?
A court just EVISCERATED two baseless arguments from the transphobic “bathroom police” at work
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I’ve provided advice to plenty of employers on transgender employees using restrooms. For most companies, it’s not an issue. Employees can use the restroom corresponding to their gender identity. But, sometimes I get pushback. Continue reading
Philadelphia and OSHA issued new mask instructions last week. One has 💪 while the other is just kinda 😐
Spoiler alert: The place with hecka-cheesesteaks was flexing. Continue reading
In today’s edition of “HR and Hip Hop”: Sir Mix-A-Lot, LL Cool J, and The Fugees. Plus the B-52s and Seinfeld!
After two posts (here and here), I felt like the “HR & Hip Hop” series had run its course. Peace out. Audi 5000. And then someone on LinkedIn challenged me, “Do something using the iconic Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ and show if you can earn some real street cred yo.” Continue reading
Don’t fall for this anti-vaxxer workplace hack.
Hey, they can’t all be hip hop HR posts. But, you’ll be thanking me for helping to sleuth out what appears to be a big medical and religious COVID-19 vaccination accommodation scam now percolating on the West Coast and coming soon to a city near you. Continue reading
Could Shock G a/k/a Humpty Hump have used FMLA leave to get a nose job?
All right! Stop whatcha doin’. ‘Cause I’m about to — school you on the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Yes, it’s another hip hop employment law lesson, this time honoring the late great Gregory Edward Jacobs a/k/a Shock G a/k/a Humpty Hump. Continue reading
Do COVID-19 business immunity state laws protect employers from ADA lawsuits too?
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According to Bloomberg Law, “broad liability protections that shield most or all businesses [from COVID-19 liability are in] roughly half of all states now.”
So let’s say that one of your employees is immunocompromised with an underlying disability, and she seeks an accommodation to mitigate the risk of her increased vulnerability to COVID-19. If the employers fail to accommodate, do “broad liability protections” under state law also foreclose COVID-19-related claims arising under the Americans with Disabilities or equivalent state disability-discrimination law?
Should religious objectors be excepted from mandatory vaccine requirements at work?
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I know this should be a “Monday” post, but, oh, what the heck. Continue reading
500,000 dollars, err, reasons not to stereotype women in traditionally male-dominated industries
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When many people think of a “motorcycle enthusiast,” they imagine someone in sunglasses, a leather vest, jeans, boots, and lots of facial hair. And while that describes my Aunt Helen, most folks picture someone like the guy in the photo.
By the way, I don’t have an Aunt Helen. If I did, she’d likely consider me a great disappointment to the Meyer name as I don’t ride a motorcycle — unless the sidecar somehow counts.