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The Employer Handbook BlogStep aside, FTC. A bipartisan group of Senators has renewed legislation to ban most noncompetes
Who knew the handcuff graphic would get so much use in 2023? And it’s only the beginning of February! Continue reading
Talk to your employees about current events before they talk to (or exclude) your customers
Yesterday was the funeral for Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. Last month, Memphis police pulled over Mr. Nichols for allegedly reckless driving. But body camera footage captured five police officers beating Mr. Nichols following the stop. He later died. The five officers were charged with murder, and protests took place across the country. Continue reading
A coworker supposedly used the N-word “all the time” at work. Case dismissed. Here’s why…
No workplace is perfect. And the one I read about last night was far from it. Continue reading
A step-by-step guide on how to go from semi-pro hockey player to unemployed in just a few tweets.
It’s 2023.
When are employees going to learn that while the First Amendment does guarantee freedom of speech, there is no constitutional right to a job, and employers don’t have to tolerate employee hate speech?
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Would your business ever refuse to hire applicants with obvious missing, broken, or badly discolored teeth?
Unless you run a dental practice, I can’t imagine why a fetching, toothy smile would be a job qualification. But, apparently, a large chain of gas/convenience stores has that policy. Continue reading
For this employer, if only the EEOC’s hearing disability guidance had come out sooner
Yesterday, I told you about the EEOC’s new resource document for assisting individuals with hearing disabilities. Today, I’ll tell you how the Second Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into the failure-to-accommodate claims of a deaf individual who worked as a case manager for a city’s Human Resources Administration (HRA).
So, thank you, blogging gods, for the impeccable timing.
The EEOC has a new resource document for assisting individuals with hearing disabilities
If you’re an employment law nerd like me, in addition to being the envy of your neighborhood, you also know that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission does not shy away from bringing failure-to-accommodate claims on behalf of deaf individuals. Look at all of them! Continue reading
Thinking about checking your employee’s Gmail account? Stop and read this first.
A couple of years ago, I blogged (here) about a company that installed spyware to monitor an employee’s Facebook Messenger activity, discovered a nefarious plot to secure client information and intellectual property, and obtained an injunction to stop the employee from starting a competing business.
But there are legal limits to employer sh*tbaggery surreptitiously monitoring employee communications. Continue reading
Here is what makes equal pay claims so difficult to win
When a longtime government agency employee sued her employer for violating the Equal Pay Act, she argued that the defendant paid her male coworker more for “essentially the same job.” In her mind, their roles “were complementary and [their] duties equal.”
But that’s not enough to show prevail under the Equal Pay Act. Continue reading