Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5b8f35e6089f7a90518b4572) Oh, I’ve got your hookup today. As I was getting caught up on last week’s email, I came across a News Release from the U.S. Department of Labor. In this Release, the DOL touted “cross-agency effort complements the Department’s enforcement activities by strengthening and innovating compliance assistance…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5b8dd93a846d78c9078b45c4) Meet the new forms; same as the old forms. Well, except for the new expiration date. Yes, that’s right. The U.S. Department of Labor has taken the existing FMLA forms and updated “Expires: 6/30/2018” in the upper right-hand corner of each form to “Expires: 8/31/2021.” Now,…
Stardate August 29, 2018. I found a 4G network and am typing this blog post at sea before I lose the network. Stay with me Verizon! How confident are you that your attendance policy complies with the FMLA? If it’s anything less than, “Damn right it does,” check out this…
Yep. So says the DOL in a brand new Opinion Letter released this week. No go win that blue pie piece in the Trivial Pursuit – HR Compliance Edition. PS – Day Three at sea and the WiFi on the cruise ship remains poor. I’m trying unionize the crew to…
By Social Security Administration (Social Security Administration) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsLast week, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced another federal paid leave proposal into the swelling options currently being considered in Congress. Kicking the can on Social Security. This bill is being dubbed the ‘‘Economic Security for New Parents Act.”…
By Stethoscopes – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link I’ll wait patiently while you grab your pearls for clutching. We know that the Family and Medical Leave Act permits eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of covered leave in a 12-month period. That leave can be taken in…
Image Credit: Maxpixel.net (https://www.maxpixel.net/Check-Envelope-Yes-No-Cross-Ankreuzen-Maybe-3413145) On the same day that Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores to train its employees on implicit bias (full curriculum here), an outspoken Hollywood celebrity stole the headlines with an explicitly-racist tweet. One tweet, no more show. Yesterday, Roseanne Barr wrote on Twitter if the “muslim brotherhood &…
By AlphaZeta – Own work, CC0, Link Can you help me out? It’ll only take a sec. I’ve created a one question survey. Here it is: If I custom-designed a one-hour HR-compliance session for you, what topic would you select? You can vote here. Thank you and I’ll post the results tomorrow!
Santeri Viinamäki [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia CommonsAlthough, the Facebook photo of the plaintiff captioned “Tubing the Rifle River” didn’t help his chances either. Neither did lying about sleeping at work despite photographic evidence to the contrary. Filed under: “WTH Dude!” Wow, I’d like to go golfing and tubing too!…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/two-ginger-cats-licking-loving-650546/) We’re gonna try a new feature here at The Employer Handbook. It’s where I take a new U.S. Department of Labor Opinion Letter and tweak it as if someone is asking me for my opinion on the precise legal issue on which the DOL is being…