Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay As the kids say, I’m 💀💀💀. The setup In early April, a hospital announced a policy requiring all employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by June 7. So over 100 employees sued in federal court, seeking an injunction to stop the mandate.…
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“Privileged white female ‘Karen’ caught on video verbally abusing an African American male” is now suing her former employer for discrimination
Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, one of my favorite HR people in the entire galaxy tweeted a link to this article from the AP. The AP reports that “the white woman who was widely condemned and fired after a videotaped dispute with…
POLL RESULTS: Don’t discipline employees that spread COVID-19 misinformation
Image by Craig Clark from Pixabay Getting in late from the Sixers/Wizards game last night — no, I didn’t dump popcorn on Russ Westbrook — I had no time to enjoy the Wednesday evening routine of a lime rickey, bubblegum cigarette, and writing the next day’s blog post. Silver lining:…
IRS to CDC: Hold our drink. Check out the new 41-page COBRA subsidy resource for employers
Image Credit: openfoodfacts.org I imagine that drink to be Ensure or Ovaltine, possibly Caffeine Free Coke Zero if things get nuts. Before face masks — or should I say no face masks — there was the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Among other things, the ARPA created a…
Join us on 3/26 at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hours. That’s right, HOURS! A DOUBLE FEATURE!!!
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Let’s give a shout-out to my special guest, David Miklas, and to everyone who attended The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour this past Friday. I had a great time discussing FFCRA, OSHA, and the new CDC COVID-19 guidance. Did you enjoy it too? Don’t worry. If you…
The EEOC has some big news for fans of EEO-1 filings!!!
party supplies by Made by Made from the Noun Project Pay attention, you two! Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dusted the cobwebs off the old EEO-1 component survey and set some deadlines for the 2020 EEO-1 filing and — wait for it — 2019’s EEO-1 filing too! Cue…
Can you fire an employee for complaining that the company violated state/local COVID-19 orders?
whistleblower by Lorie Shaull from the Noun Project Often, readers of the blog will email me recent blogworthy HR news. Occasionally, an attorney will send me a favorable decision that s/he obtained for a client on an employment law topic that may interest readers of this blog. Today, that’s what…
Court: Warning! Employer may have violated WARN with mass layoff with little-to-no notice during pandemic
By Unknown author – From the Open Clip Art Gallery – http://openclipart.org/, CC0, Link See what I did there? Don’t worry; I’ll be here all week. What is WARN? The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide at least 60 calendar…
Pink slips for seven plant managers who ran bets on how many employees would get COVID-19
Image by Aidan Howe from Pixabay So, did you vote in Jon Hyman’s Worst Employers of 2020 poll? I would have voted for the company accused of having plant managers that organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive…
Free COVID-19 claims and lawsuits webinar? And a slide deck on EEO considerations too? I got you, fam!
Image by 政徳 吉田 from Pixabay Who loves you? Slide deck: A Return to Work from COVID-19: EEO and Other Employment Law Considerations – BOOM! Webinar: Covid-19 claims and lawsuits; Prepare your business today for potential lawsuits tomorrow – Let’s goooooooo! Plus, get 40 credits worth of HR virtual learning…