People ask me if I like to read. Not so much anymore, outside of reading Harry Potter books to my kids and reading graphic novels (ok, fine, comic books) to me. Social media apps like LinkedIn have eroded my attention span. I can barely make it through a few hundred…
ICYMI, the days of a more business-friendly U.S. Department of Labor are long gone. And it’s only going to become more adversarial. In the past year, the DOL has ended a program that would have allowed employers to self-report federal minimum wage and overtime violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act…
I’m going to share with you the Mysterious Case of the Disappearing U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet No. 84. Last week, right around the time that my employment law colleagues and I were recording The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour (available here on The Employer…
dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons We still don’t know **clicks refresh on the Supreme Court’s website** whether the OSHA vax-or-test mandate will survive Supreme Court scrutiny. But, in the meantime, the Biden Administration announced some big news yesterday about at-home COVID-19 tests. Starting on Saturday, January 15, 2022,…
Roman Oleinik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons If this isn’t karma, friends, I don’t know what is. Hold for a sec. Before blogging about the height of passive-aggressive behavior backfiring, let me click “refresh” on the Supreme Court’s website to see if we have a decision in the OSHA…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decision last week to shorten its recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine periods to five days for asymptomatic individuals (followed by masking for five more days) did not go over well with many folks. The CDC changed the rule because “science demonstrat[es] that the majority…
It depends. ‘¯\_(ツ)_/¯’ What happened? According to the British Tabloids, several people dining together contributed $100 each following dinner at a restaurant for the two waitresses who served the group. The tips totaled $4,400. Apparently, one of the diners envisioned having a “$100 club” during the pandemic and called the…
Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay Last week, business groups asked the White House to delay President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private companies with 100+ employees “until after the holiday season.” Also, last week, labor unions asked the White House for additional worker protections beyond mandatory vaccinations. By…
Image by S K from Pixabay Technically, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth. But that’s not really the point of this post. So, I’ll digress. I tend to overuse the phrase “your mileage may vary” on this blog. Often, I use it when comparing the laws of different states. But, I also…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Since taking office, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has committed to battling worker misclassification, i.e., treating employees as independent contractors. Misclassifying employees as independent contractors can deprive workers of wages and benefits and also have tax ramifications too. In 2018, New Jersey teamed up with the U.S.…