Last chance to snag a free seat to today’s Zoom at Noon ET on leave rights and accommodations
If you’ve procrastinated all week, you still have a few hours to register for this week’s edition of The...
Category: Employer Handbook
When do employers risk FLSA violations by raising and lowering hourly wage rates?
The Fair Labor Standards Act can present a minefield for even the savviest wage-and-hour gurus. Last night, I read...
A defendant asked a plaintiff alleging sexual harassment to undergo a — oh, Dear God, no!!!
In today’s post, I had planned to dispense some wage-and-hour tips for employers seeking to adjust hourly pay rates....
Bless their hearts for thinking that their employer discriminated against them for hosting a Christmas party
Two women who worked for a home healthcare company in Tennessee claimed that their religion motivated their employer to...
Join me on Zoom on October 28 at noon ET for leave rights and accommodations in hybrid and remote workplaces. It’s FREE!
I’m unsure if we can top this past Friday’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour. My...
EEOC Poster mystery SOLVED! (Plus, don’t forget about today’s free Zoom at Noon ET.)
I got an email last night from a U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission Commissioner. That email explained why...
The EEOC released a new mandatory workplace poster. Or did it?
Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced here that it had released an updated version of the...
Give this manager a gold star!
<a title="GFDL, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons” href=”https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Award_star_(gold).png”> GFDL, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, we...
I told you so.
I read another federal court opinion last night that reaffirms how important it is for employers to have effective...
Join me on Zoom on October 21 at noon ET as we discuss your employees’ mental health and wellness. It’s FREE!
Oooooh…this one is going to be really good! There’s usually a certain formula when I invite other attorneys to...
We’re talking labor unions on Zoom at Noon ET today with Jon Hyman. Join us. It’s FREE!
TBH, I didn’t expect this edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour to overwhelm the Zoom servers with...
There’s retaliation, and then there’s beating up the complainant and sending him to the emergency room
The Fair Labor Standards Act makes it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees who complain about violations of...
The DOL is changing its independent contractor rules. Is it a big deal? Or just, meh?
It was bound to happen. Early last year, just before the change in presidential administrations, the U.S. Department of...
Not all discrimination lawsuits against airlines are worth $5M.
This one (unlike that one) wasn’t even worth five cents. I suppose that’s what happens when you work for...
In at least one court, employees don’t need doctors to establish ADA disabilities
How broad is the Americans with Disabilities Act‘s definition of “disability”? It’s so broad, concluded the Eleventh Circuit Court...
They wanted to hire “Ken and Barbie.” What they got was a discrimination lawsuit instead.
Today, we will have a lesson on the differences between “direct” and “circumstantial” evidence of discrimination. Plaintiffs may prove...
Just because a manager is a crude jerk doesn’t mean he broke the law too
It takes a lot to establish what the law considers a hostile work environment. A former warehouse manager learned...
Can a company fire someone whom it believes will join a pending wage and hour class action against it?
It depends. Suppose the company is firing the employee for poor performance, which has nothing to do with the...
Unions: Fad or Trend? Join Jon Hyman and me on Zoom on October 14, 2022 at Noon ET. It’s FREE!
American support for labor unions is at its highest level in over 50 years, and most non-union workers would...