Image by Okan Caliskan from Pixabay Is your head spinning? Ok, sit down. I’ll explain it. Yesterday, I blogged about the National Labor Relations Board announcing its joint-employer rule. Under the Board’s new rule, a joint-employer relationship involves one business that possesses and exercises substantial direct and immediate control over…
Sgomag / CC BY-SA Why should you care about joint employment? What’s new? And why did the National Labor Relations Board change the rule? Let’s answer these questions… Why should you care about joint employment? Here is what the Board thinks: If the employees are represented by a union, the…
Image by CryptoSkylark from Pixabay Let’s say that you have an employee prone to angry outbursts. Sound familiar? But, what if those outbursts were a symptom of something like bipolar disorder? And let’s say that the employee can control his anger if he takes medicine and short breaks. The Americans…
Photo by Tayeb MEZAHDIA from Pexels *And by ‘top secret, classified, confidential,’ I mean readily available from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s publicly accessible website (here). And also, here and here. Or, you can just keep reading, because I’ve cut and pasted some of two of the five priorities…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Technically, they settled for $1.15M. But, that won’t stop me from playing some ‘Lil Wayne. Many of you have good taste in employment law blogs, my ramblings and typos notwithstanding. That’s because you also read Jon Hyman’s Ohio Employer Law Blog. Jon’s blog is a…
Image Credit: PxFuel.com (License to use Creative Commons Zero – CC0) I’m a two tin can and string kinda guy. That way, not only can I can tell my kids — I have 50 of them — to cut the crap and clip my blogger toenails but also I can…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e4c9a4e089f7a2b888b45b4) And I want to try “The Perfect Bite” that Binging With Babish cooked up last week on his YouTube channel. Here is what his duck carbonara looked like. But, Governor Murphy’s proposed changes to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) aren’t nearly as aspirational. And if…
Ibrahim.ID / CC BY-SA Obviously, probably, and definitely. But, a recent survey didn’t cover any of these examples. Survey methodology Instead, researchers at Penn State University “recruited 436 hiring managers from a variety of organizations, 61% of whom were employed in the hospitality industry and the remainder in industries ranging…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Yesterday, over at The Employer Handbook Facebook page — give us a like — I saw a comment, followed by a snarky meme, in response to yesterday’s Family and Medical Leave Act / Coronavirus post. One reader commented that an employee stranded on a ship…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay I’m a little late to the employment law blogger party where we fearmonger about Coronavirus and what employers should do about employee travel. I planned to take a pass on that. But, then I read this article on Bloomberg about a cruise ship that can’t…