vargas2040, Cropped by OsamaK / CC BY-SA You get emergency paid sick leave! You get emergency paid sick leave! You get emergency paid sick leave! Ok, so maybe Oprah had nothing to do with Public Health Emergency Leave, a bill that provides up to two weeks of paid sick leave…
Jeoy Pena / CC BY-SA Courts across the country have consistently concluded that the Americans with Disabilities Act does not require an employer to accommodate an employee’s use of medical marijuana — even outside of work — to enable an employee with a disability to perform the essential functions of…
Photo by Science in HD on Unsplash Ok, confession time. I’ve procrastinated on preparing the slide deck for my upcoming presentation, A Return to Work from COVID-19: EEO and Other Employment Law Considerations, for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. I plan to cover the latest developments on EEO and…
Image by 15675001 from Pixabay Just as I was settling in on Friday evening for a well-deserved lime rickey, I got an email from the U.S. Department of Labor. The email was part of a press release, in which the DOL announced that it had posted revisions to its regulations interpreting…
Image Credit: Alexas_Fotos (pixabay.com) I love my readers. But there are many added perks of being a client. For example, you get the daily blog posts. Plus, I toss in free weekend updates. (Yes, I sleep, but rarely.) In this past weekend’s update, I detailed how the U.S. Department of…
Image by Лечение наркомании from Pixabay Let’s give credit where credit is due. When Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division had the unenviable task of creating and implementing supporting guidance, enforcing the law, and tending to all of its…
Image Credit: Twitter Hopefully, your workplace looks nothing like back to school at this Georgia high school. (More on that here.) Instead, your business should have a return-to-work plan that includes social distancing (not pictured here) and mandatory face masks for employees (also not pictured here). And, speaking of face…
(U.S. Air Force photo illustration/Tech. Sgt. Mark R. W. Orders-Woempner) Technically, the new guidance is from the EEOC. But, since this is my blog, I’ll take credit for sharing it. Before I detail this new guidance, I’ve got some other big EEOC news! That is, several of my friends from…
Terabass / CC BY-SA A few months ago, I wrote here about a Families First Cornavirus Response Act lawsuit. But, not just any old FFCRA lawsuit. Rather, the State of New York sued the U.S. Department of Labor in federal court to challenge the DOL’s interpretation of the FFCRAbecause it…
Image by Klaus Hausmann from Pixabay Sorry, I should’ve warned you to grab a fire extinguisher before your head exploded. Two of my favorite employment law / HR blogs inspire today’s post. On Tuesday, over at Ask a Manager, Alison Green posted here about a small-business owner who lamented about…