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…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. [cue music] If you require your employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, and those arbitration agreements force employees to waive their rights to assert claims together as part…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5e41ee23089f7ab90a8b4591) It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up! magazine. Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine. I guess Notorious B.I.G. wasn’t exactly rapping about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requirement for employers with one hundred or more employees to file with the…
TikTok [Public domain]When it comes to employees getting fired for their social media use, the Mount Rushmore of platforms claiming these victims is Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. But, let’s talk a little bit about TikTok. But, before I do that and apropos of the theme of this post, yo,…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/interview-job-icon-job-interview-1018333/) Back in 2017, the City of Philadelphia became the first city in the country to pass a law forbidding local employers from asking individuals about their salary history. The purpose of the law was to help close the wage gap between men and women. Then the…
Image by Jim Gade from Pixabay Nearly three years ago to the day, I provided 55,000 reasons to allow your pregnant employees to be exposed to toxic chemicals at work. Wait, what? If a pregnant woman needs to use poisonous lacquer thinners… The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued…
Photo by Black ice from Pexels It’s one of the most common questions that I get from clients and readers. With so many employment laws out there, it’s not easy to keep track of what those laws say — let alone which ones you may have to follow. That’s why…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay The wage-and-hour pendulum has once again shifted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Nerdiest. Pendulum. Ever. Salary-level test changes. Back in October, I blogged about how Pennsylvania, yes Pennsylvania, had announced new overtime rules that are more generous than federal law. On January 1 of this…
Stefan Scheer [CC BY-SA]According to a recent survey, 17.5 million American workers may be skipping work today, the day after the Super Bowl. About 6 in 10 of those employees had their Monday absence pre-approved. So, at least you can plan for that. But, what about the other 6-or-so million?…
By National Museum of American History – Image by Godot13, Public Domain, Link Workplace accommodations can be easy. For example, when an employee with carpal tunnel syndrome requests an ergonomic keyboard to perform his job, and his job involves a lot of typing, you get him the keyboard. Or maybe…