I didn’t mean to startle some of you yesterday. In yesterday’s post, I teased that we would rank the Thanksgiving foods today. But in doing so, I linked to last year’s survey, which is closed. Sorry about that. For those new to the blog, each year before Thanksgiving, readers get…
Just as I had finished raiding my kids’ hauls for all the Butterfingers and 100 Grands, it was at that moment that I remembered that the sweetest part of Halloween, the real HR nerd candy, was that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had announced the opening of 2022 EEO-1…
I am so stoked for today’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour. I’ll tell you why. I’ve convinced my friends, Meyling “Mey” Ly Ortiz and Edward Fronczkiewicz, to share their in-house counsel perspectives on employee relations. In her role as Managing Counsel of Employment & Labor at…
This may come as a surprise to some of you, but the in-house company lawyers don’t always see eye-to-eye with the HR professionals, supervisors, and employees whom they counsel. And vice versa. I’d swap stories with you, but the attorney-client privilege (and my better judgment) cautions against doing so. So,…
Before you put away your robes and gavels, I need to judge one more thing: the annual Thanksgiving foods competition. It’s that time of year when I ask the best blog readers in the world (that’s you!) to rank the best Thanksgiving foods. Thirty-two items are divided into four categories…
By Metsfan84, CC BY 3.0, Link Every July 1 since 2011, the New York Mets have paid Bobby Bonilla $1,193,248.20. That seems like a pretty reasonable annual payment for a six-time All-Star. Except, here’s the thing. Mr. Bonilla is 59 years old and hasn’t played for the Mets in over…
As an employment law mediator, my resume includes many years of private practice and service to some federal courts. But I cut my chops at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and have remained a volunteer mediator with the EEOC for over a decade. If anyone asked me what I…
If it had anything to do with COVID-19 vaccination mandates, y’all were reading. That and the third-most-read post, which leaves me wondering whether I should be taking out a restraining order against some of you. Here are the most-read posts from 2021: 5. “And just like that, the CMS vaccine…
Dorevabelfiore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons For just the next few days, who gives a you-know-what about vaccine mandates and booster shots? It’s that time of year when I ask the best blog readers in the world to rank the best Thanksgiving foods. As we did it last year,…
Image Credit: Eric Meyer On Tuesday, I departed the Bloggerdome at 3 PM in my hovercar — per usual — and boarded an actual plane at PHL a few hours later where I flew Ultra First Class — in front of the cockpit. On the flight, I binged a few…