Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay Good question. Oh, you want me to answer? Fine, I’m up to it. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — perhaps you’ve heard of them — updated this guidance entitled “When You Can be Around Others After You Had…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay It’s week 98 of quarantine, many of you are working from home, and the boss isn’t around. So, you’ve got really got no excuse to miss The Employer Handbook Office Hour today on Zoom at Noon ET, for which you can still register here…
Image by Hayley Zacha from Pixabay I wonder if, in light of their recently-proposed rules, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would consider a joint a small enough incentive from employers to encourage their employees to participate in a company wellness program. Are you high, Eric? Not really, other than…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Last week, I shared with you eight ways that President Biden changed employment law on Day One. It took me a while to cobble together that post. So, I was kind of hoping that “46” would take a few days off or something so that…
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay Oh, I was just asking. I thought you knew. Ok, let’s start over. Since I did read this opinion and, apparently, it’s my job to do the ‘splaining around here. Just don’t accuse me of blog-splaining. Anyway, according to the plaintiff, an employee of a…
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…
Dance Party by Blaise Sewell from the Noun Project While you were busy partying at home like it’s 1999 (cue music) or on Zoom with friends, or playing socially-distanced Cards Against Humanity, or whatever it is that HR folks do to let off a year of scalding-hot steam, the U.S.…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay For most, 2020 was a big dumpster fire. COVID-19 didn’t exactly do wonders for the ruby-studded computer servers in the Bloggerdome. When stuff got real in March, this blog caught 🔥🔥🔥. Take a look at the top posts from 2020: 5. “GOTCHA! You won’t…
JMacPherson from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I won’t judge you if you don’t judge me. 🤐 Although I won’t provide drinks for everyone, I will be serving up knowledge – ba dum bum – today at noon eastern on Zoom for the final 2020 edition of…
Image by ahmad triyawan from Pixabay I love my blog readers, but clients get the concierge treatment with daily blog posts and weekly email updates. Last night’s client email update included the news that President Trump had just signed the legislation about which I blogged here and here last week.…