Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image’s Commons talk page or my English Wikipedia talk page; I’ll know about it a lot faster) / Public domain We’re taking HUGE here. Yesterday, I detailed (here) the latest news on the push for paid…
U.S. Government/Gobierno de los Estados Unidos / Public domain Last week, we covered (here) what the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants employers to know about COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. This week, we have new guidance from OSHA and the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.…
pect losesis part Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e656316846d7826618b45a7) You read it here first. Or, maybe second, because Cristina Marcos at TheHill (here) had the scoop on Friday evening: Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Friday that would require all employers to grant workers paid sick days in light of…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay We’re going to start with a brief fact pattern, and then I’ll pose the questions. Alright, let’s see whatcha got. FACTS: An employee injured his ribs while playing with his grandchildren. Over the next two weeks, the employee and his wife called his employer to…
Image Credit: PxFuel.com (License to use Creative Commons Zero – CC0) I’m a two tin can and string kinda guy. That way, not only can I can tell my kids — I have 50 of them — to cut the crap and clip my blogger toenails but also I can…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Yesterday, over at The Employer Handbook Facebook page — give us a like — I saw a comment, followed by a snarky meme, in response to yesterday’s Family and Medical Leave Act / Coronavirus post. One reader commented that an employee stranded on a ship…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay I’m a little late to the employment law blogger party where we fearmonger about Coronavirus and what employers should do about employee travel. I planned to take a pass on that. But, then I read this article on Bloomberg about a cruise ship that can’t…
Stefan Scheer [CC BY-SA]According to a recent survey, 17.5 million American workers may be skipping work today, the day after the Super Bowl. About 6 in 10 of those employees had their Monday absence pre-approved. So, at least you can plan for that. But, what about the other 6-or-so million?…
By AgnosticPreachersKid – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link The U.S. Department of Labor could have rested on its overtime-rule laurels in 2020. Instead, the DOL has wasted little time releasing three new opinion letters in 2020. I’ll break them down for you below. FLSA2020-1: Addressing calculating overtime pay for a…
Image Credit: https://freesvg.org/1550658029 (Public Domain) Regular, in-person attendance is generally critical to performing one’s job. So, when an employee exhausts her twelve weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act only to miss another 33 days of work (resulting in a 59% absentee rate), one’s job security may…