By Metsfan84, CC BY 3.0, Link Between us friends, tell me. What’s the biggest severance that you’ve ever paid to an underperforming employee? I ask this question because, today, the New York Mets are paying $1,193,248.20 to a former third baseman named Bobby Bonilla. Casual baseball fans may not remember…
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VLOG: Why I’m not eligible for FFCRA leave this summer, but you might be.
Image by Annalise Batista from Pixabay Late last week, the U.S. Department of Labor issued this Field Assistance Bulletin. It addresses when employees can take Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) leave based on the closure of summer camps, summer enrichment programs, and other summer programs. Last night, I recorded…
Philly is the first city to have that COVID-19 anti-retaliation whistleblower jawn.
De Beyond My Ken – Trabajo propio, CC BY-SA 4.0, Enlace And by ‘jawn,’ I mean just about anything. But here, specifically, Philadelphia has a new anti-retaliation whistleblower law. Juliana Feliciano Reyes writing here for the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Thursday that City Council voted unanimously for this legislation that…
The DOL issued five new FLSA opinion letters yesterday. But, the much bigger wage and hour news was…
Image by Annalise Batista from Pixabay Yesterday morning, I received a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor. Five opinion letters The U.S. Department of Labor announced five new opinion letters that address compliance issues related to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): FLSA2020-6: Addresses whether salespeople who travel…
Can you fire an employee who knowingly comes to the office with COVID-19?
oImage by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay TL;DR – Damn skippy, you can. Do you guys read “Ask a Manager” by Allison Green? It’s a fantastic HR blog where readers submit questions — some real zany ones — to Allison for her input. Yesterday, I noticed that a reader had asked for…
10 million more reasons not to account for age when returning employees to work.
Jericho / CC BY About a week or so ago, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reminded employers that federal anti-discrimination law does not require that businesses accommodate older workers due to their age if, for example, they need help returning to work. I wrote about that here. But, here’s…
If you permit Black Lives Matter apparel at work, does that mean White Lives Matter is ok too?
Image by Mr Salih from Pixabay Yesterday’s post about employees wearing Black Lives Matter apparel at work was a bit of a lightning rod. While all of the comments I received were respectful — thank you! — some questioned whether allowing employees to wear BLM face masks, pins, and insignia…
Is it legal to forbid employees from wearing Black Lives Matter face masks or insignia at work?
The All-Nite Images from NY, NY, USA / CC BY-SA If you’ve read the news recently, you may have seen stories like this one and this one about large businesses that had policies against employees wearing pro-BLM clothes and apparel. In those two examples, each of the companies has since changed…
OSHA just issued new guidance on returning to work. But is it any good?
Image by Pro File from Pixabay Last week, OSHA issued some guidance on wearing masks in the workplace. It was kinda vague and underwhelming. Yesterday, OSHA came back with additional guidance on returning to work. Is it any better than OSHA’s last offering? Let’s find out. We begin with a…
COVID-19 antibody testing as a condition of returning to work? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
free images I’ve got something to tell you. I’m coming clean. Are you ready? Here it is. I don’t know squat about antibody testing for COVID-19. And guess what? You don’t either. Look, I’ve met plenty of people who think that they know about antibody testing for COVID-19: friends, colleagues,…