Jericho / CC BY About a week or so ago, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reminded employers that federal anti-discrimination law does not require that businesses accommodate older workers due to their age if, for example, they need help returning to work. I wrote about that here. But, here’s…
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It’s okay to invite employees to request disability accommodations, plus other brand new EEOC COVID-19 guidance!
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay As a best practice, and in advance of having some or all employees return to the workplace, are there ways for an employer to invite employees to request flexibility in work arrangements? That’s the first of six coronavirus-related questions that the EEOC answered yesterday…
Here’s that new CDC guidance for re-opening your business. Plus, we’ve get one heckuva Zoom chat coming on Friday!
Before we talk about this new CDC guidance, mark your calendars for Friday at Noon EDT. That’s when I’ll be back with another HR COVID-19 Zoom chat. Go ahead and register now (here) while space is still available. My special guest this week is an accomplished HR professional, author, and…
The White House announces a three-phase plan to reopen America and get people back to work
daImage Credit: Whitehouse.gov Let’s check out this three-phase plan and see what it means for your business. Gameday! Before I explain the White House plan, I want to remind you that today at Noon EDT on Zoom, we’re going to test your COVID-19 HR knowledge in a game of JEOPARDY!…
SCOTUS has a thing or two to say about age discrimination, which has nothing whatsoever to do with COVID-19.
Joe Ravi / CC BY-SA Last week, on Monday, the Supreme Court issued this age discrimination opinion. The opinion focuses on age bias in a federal government workplace, which is a small portion of folks that read this blog. But, there are a few takeaways for the rest of you.…
The EEOC’s 42-minute COVID-19 webinar explained in about 4.2 minutes.
Image Credit: https://libreshot.com/apple-and-measuring-tape/ Sound good to you? On Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission posted a webinar addressing questions arising under any of the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar was mainly the A to a bunch of Q’s that people like you submitted…
This great federal court decision I read offers seven keys to a proper severance agreement
Image by Andreas Breitling from Pixabay A lawyer claimed that his employer had discriminated against him based on his race, color, gender, and age, when it terminated his employment and filled a position nearly identical to that which he held prior to his termination with a younger, African-American woman. So…
A company called the plaintiff an ‘old timer’ and later fired him. But he LOST his age bias claim. Here’s why…
Image Credit: https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Old-man-with-cane/46227.html There are plenty of buzzwords and phrases that, when uttered in the workplace, made provide good fodder for an age discrimination claim. For example, referring to someone as an ‘old timer’ can be direct evidence of age discrimination. Then, if an email were to surface in which…
Filling out those EEO-1s stinks. But, it could be worse…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here., Public Domain, Link I want to give a little shoutout to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with whom I am spending the day today in Atlanta at the 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference. So, today’s post…
When it comes to avoiding claims of age discrimination, consider the optics
Photo via Good Free Photos For example, consider a lawsuit that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a few weeks ago. I’ll quote a bit from the press release and be back with you in a second: [A] dental practice headquartered in Harrisburg, Pa., violated federal law when it…