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If you have non-competition agreements with non-exempt employees, now would be a good time to grab some pearls for clutching
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Do we have to pay out accrued PTO when an employee separates?
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You may have heard the news last week that Buzzfeed was laying off 15% of its workforce. You can read more about that here. Continue reading
Appellate court rules that age discrimination against certain job applicants is okay — sort of.
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Last week, the full Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued this decision in which it held that an outside job applicant cannot pursue a disparate impact claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
What does this mean in plain English?
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Girl Scout Cookies and Employment Law – Almost Everything That HR Needs To Know
Won’t you help little Ivy Meyer achieve her Girl Scout Cookies sales goal?
It’s that time of year again.
Coworkers have begun bombarding you with requests to purchase Girl Scout Cookies. So, in that spirit, let’s tackle:
- Whether unions will start organizing your workplace if you relax your no-solicitation policy to allow employees to sell Girl Scout Cookies;
- Can employees use your email system to proselytize if co-workers use it to sell Girl Scout Cookies; and
- A bonus discrimination case involving the sale of Girl Scout Cookies gone terribly wrong.
Overtime: Two legal actions to reverse the outcome of the Saints-Rams NFC Championship Game
Warning: This post has nothing to do with employment law. However, it is about the law and football. And, we’ll all have a good laugh about it. Continue reading
The NLRB may exterminate Scabby The Rat, and I have mixed feelings about that.
Yep, that’s me about eight years ago posing with my first-born and an inflatable rat.
His name is Scabby. The rat, that is. And he may be going away for good soon.
Another court greenlights discrimination claims for a medical marijuana user fired for failing a drug test
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In the United States, medical marijuana use is legal in 33 states and the District of Columbia. However, the laws governing the use of medical marijuana vary from state to state. Continue reading
Workplace lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Hold our drink, feds.” New Jersey strikes deal for $15 minimum wage
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On Wednesday, I blogged about how Democrats in the U.S. Senate were introducing a new bill to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour.
Yesterday, the State of New Jersey completed a roadmap to a $15/hr minimum wage in the Garden State. Continue reading