Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. [cue music] If you require your employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, and those arbitration agreements force employees to waive their rights to assert claims together as part…
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?…
Pete unseth [CC BY-SA]The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide new moms with reasonable break time and a private place to pump breastmilk. Well, not all new moms; just the non-exempt workers; i.e., the overtime-eligible employees. But, new bipartisan legislation proposed last…
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Late in October 2018, New Jersey’s Earned Sick Leave Law (ESLL) took effect. Under the ESLL, employees can accrue one hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 in a year. In November 2018, the State’s Department of Labor…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5dfae5ac089f7ac0528b45a3) And it only took 22 years. Back in 1997, Puff Daddy — he was Puff Daddy back then — was burning up the charts with his Biggie Smalls tribute, I’ll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans and 112). Meanwhile, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released…
Image by Darrin Kiessling from Pixabay “So, Meyer thinks his organized-labor blog posts go over like wet farts, does he? Fam, let’s announce one — no, TWO HUGE DECISIONS in one day, and we’ll see how he gets around writing about them. That blogger nerd!” — National Labor Relations Board…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay With a big ‘ol tip of the cap to Phil Miles, Esq. over at Lawffice Space (here) and Daniel Cummins at Tort Talk (here), we’ve got some news that should interest Pennsylvania employers. For the first time, a state or federal court in Pennsylvania has decided…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5da05f89089f7acb5a8b4590) Back in the early Summer of 2017, most of the experts — the pundits, if you will — were predicting that American businesses were not going to spend as much in 2018 on advice from employment law attorneys. Then, in September 2017, along came a guy…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com It’s called the FAIR Act, which stands for the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act. The FAIR Act would amend the Federal Arbitration Act to prohibit a pre-dispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay If you’ve got workplace drug testing for marijuana all figured out, you can skip today’s post. As for the rest of you… There is a new article from Tammy Lytle in the Fall 2019 Issue of HR Magazine called “Marijuana and the Workplace: It’s Complicated.”…