Image Credit: finger pointing by BomSymbols from the Noun Project While nerds like me were flooding LinkedIn with status updates about Sixth Circuit this and OSHA ETS that, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was hosting a secret “virtual dialogue” with the employer Illuminati about retaliation updating its COVID-19 Technical…
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Drop that COVID-19 religious accommodation exemption form says one EEOC Commissioner
form by Jason Tropp from the Noun Project Before I tell you which COVID-19 religious accommodation form you need to trash right away, don’t forget that today is the big, free live Zoom on the new OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate. Join me and my partners Amy Epstein Gluck, David Renner, Sid Steinberg, Gordon Berger…
Is indefinite unpaid leave irreparably harmful to employees that don’t get vaccinated?
Image by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay On Monday, a Texas federal court dealt with a nuanced issue relating to vaccine mandates. The case is not about the constitutionality or efficacy of vaccine mandates promulgated by the government or private entities. Instead, it focused on an airline’s accommodation policy for employees…
A federal court says certain religious employers may discriminate against LGBT employees
Image Credit: PublicDomainPictures.Net (Judge Gavel) Do you remember back in 2020, when the Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton County held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employment discrimination based on LGBT status? But the court did leave one issue open, namely, the implications for…
The EEOC emailed me its INTERNAL Religious Accommodation Request Form. Want to see it?
Image Credit: https://www.maxpixel.net/Online-Dating-Email-Love-Letter-Email-Love-Tinder-4479544 Earlier this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provided additional information on religious objections to workplace vaccine requirements to its growing technical assistance manual. Thank you. But, yesterday, one of the EEOC Commissioners emailed me the actual form that the EEOC uses to process religious accommodation…
How to call applesauce on COVID-19 religious objections and other new advice from the EEOC
Image Credit: Eric Meyer I meant to write a blog post on Sunday evening to go up yesterday. But, here’s the thing. After Seattle, I flew to Las Vegas for the Eagles/Raiders game. And what I witnessed on the football field on Sunday afternoon, I spent some time in the…
These employees actually convinced a court to block a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate. But how???
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Ever since a federal judge in Texas upheld a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate back in June, the consensus among judges and lawyers was that employers could require workers to get a COVID-19 shot as a condition of employment. But, recently, the State of New York…
A judge wasn’t buying a plaintiff’s religious reasons to avoid a vaccine mandate. And, sometimes, neither should you.
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Yesterday, my friend Jon Hyman blogged about fetal stem cells and vaccine-mandate religious exemptions. TL;DR. Any employee that refused the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines because they contain aborted fetal cells is full of 💩. They don’t. Consequently, any religious exemption request that an…
How does one major airline plan to accommodate religious vaccine exemptions? With unpaid leave.
Image by TheDigitalWay from Pixabay Several news outlets reported yesterday that a major airline that has already mandated employee vaccinations will begin placing employees on temporary unpaid leave if approved for a religious vaccine exemption. You can read more on the story here, here, and here. According to the CNBC…
Don’t fall for this anti-vaxxer workplace hack.
medical report prescription by Vectors Point from the Noun Project Hey, they can’t all be hip hop HR posts. But, you’ll be thanking me for helping to sleuth out what appears to be a big medical and religious COVID-19 vaccination accommodation scam now percolating on the West Coast and coming…