Talk to your employees about current events before they talk to (or exclude) your customers
Last month, Memphis police pulled over Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, for allegedly reckless driving. Body camera footage...
Category: Employer Handbook
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. The plaintiff, who...
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...
Check out the EEOC’s livestream tomorrow on the use of AI in hiring decisions
I’m exhausted. As much as I prepared for this at the gym over the past several weeks, I must...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Let’s talk about religious discrimination (and MORE!) with EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas at Noon ET today!!!
Over the past few years, employers encountered a spate of religious accommodations requests from employees seeking religious exemptions from...
I’m not done with yesterday’s post yet. You need to hear about the retaliation claim!
On Wednesday, I blogged about a woman who worked as a helper for a construction company. She had to...
Is it sex discrimination to assign a woman different tasks than a man in the same job?
A woman received a promotion at a construction company from laborer to helper. Helpers either work on the ground...
How might the Supreme Court’s decision to reexamine religious accommodations impact employers?
Last May, I wrote about this religious discrimination case involving an employer’s duty to accommodate a plaintiff who needed Sundays off...
Join me and EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas on Friday, 1/20/23, at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour
I told you that the first Zoom Office Happy Hour of 2023 at The Employer Handbook would be a...
New Jersey’s Mini-WARN Act hecka-employee-friendly amendments start on April 10, 2023
In December, I warned you that New Jersey’s Mini-WARN Act might get that employee-friendly overhaul sooner than you think....
Oh, I forgot to mention that the man’s son worked for the same employer. He sued too.
Yesterday, I wrote about a man who claimed that his employer retaliated against him by forcing him to resign...
Man alleges antidiscrimination law prohibits mandatory antidiscrimination training. Man is wrong.
The federal court decision I read last night reaffirms one of the many reasons I enjoy practicing employment law:...
Join us at 1 PM ET today (1/9/23) on Zoom to discuss the FTC’s new proposed noncompete ban
On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule prohibiting employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers. I...
The feds are coming for your noncompete agreements, old and new. You need to read THIS!
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule prohibiting employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers. When I...
FMLA does not protect employees from termination for unrelated reasons (like performance)
Blink twice if you know (or at least suspect) a poor-performing employee who complained about discrimination or sought leave...