I just re-read yesterday’s blog drivel. What the hell was that?!? As much as I do love the two great tastes that taste great together, that was an utter FAIL and I vow never to incorporate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups into a blog post again. Unless, of course: (a) a…
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Peanut butter cups for everyone! Thank you, Third Circuit!
After seeing Fatboy Slim perform in a bubble at the Olympics Closing Ceremony, I had trouble falling asleep last night. I tossed. I turned. But, I eventually drifted off into a deep sleep; a wonderful slumber. I dreamt that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided two cases under the…
Booby trapped! No break time for nursing employee; no lawsuit either.
HEY! Which one of you just threw that breast pump at my head? [annnnnnnd cue music] ** Dons sensitivity invisibility cloak ** Nearly two years ago, I wrote here about how the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to require companies to…
Retaliatory voodoo, Courtney Love, and lots of unpaid $$$
Sounds like a bad batch of Pennyroyal Tea. Just another Tuesday here at the ole Handbook. <div style=”text-align: right;”>The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting here that Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain’s widow, is reuniting the band ** thank you for sparing our ear holes ** being sued by a former assistant…
Pennsylvania to relax OT requirements for hospitals
Last week, Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Corbett was presented with this bill that will allow hospitals and other medical care facilities in Pennsylvania to better control the scheduling of employees to control payment of overtime. Details after the jump… * * * The bill, which Gov. Corbett is expected to…
Healthcare, what? Eyeball 3 other pending employment law bills
I heard that there was some Supreme Court decision yesterday about healthcare. Want the scoop? Google it. They zig, I’ll zag with the scoop on some other pending employment-law legislation of which employers should take note…after the jump… * * * Courtesy of the Washington DC Employment Law Update, pay…
Supreme Court: No overtime pay for pharmaceutical sales reps
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a company must pay overtime to non-exempt employees who work over 40 hours in a particular workweek. Non-exempt, huh? That implies that the FLSA also contains various exemptions from overtime pay for employees who meet those requirements. Indeed it does. One of those exemptions…
4 pending bills that could change the NJ employment landscape
One of my favorite reads on NJ employment law is Ogletree Deakins’s New Jersey eAuthority. The June 2012 issue highlights several pieces of legislation now pending in NJ of which employers should take note. I’ve summarized four of them after the jump… * * * Severance yes, unemployment compensation…
Paycheck Fairness Act fails in the Senate, plus other news…
Billed as a way to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, the Paycheck Fairness Act, did not make it out of the Senate yesterday. The Paycheck Fairness Act earned 52 votes in favor of proceeding to final consideration,…
That’s what they said: “Naked ambition” and a “voyeur boss”? (And more…)
As evidenced by the nature of this blog post and the picture on the right, it’s best not to leave me in the office alone, unsupervised, with an iPhone, and App Store credits, as I punch this out at 10:52 at night on a Thursday. (And yet, somehow, the Wall…