Image Credit: Pexels.com (https://www.pexels.com/photo/2018-alarm-clock-balance-business-612051/) Happy New Year, everyone. Or, as we employment law nerds say, ‘Day 2’ of the new overtime rule today. (Actually, no one says that except for this nerd.) As of January 1, 2020, a salaried employee must make at least $684 per week (equivalent to $35,568 per…
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Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay 2019 was a busy year for HR compliance. That’s a true statement even if we forget about all that went down in New Jersey. Among other things, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule to make 1.3 million American workers eligible for overtime…
Your New Jersey HR Compliance Checklist for January 1, 2020📝☑️
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Practicing employment law in the State of New Jersey is both a blessing and a curse. I’ll clarify that. It’s great for me because New Jersey passes new employment laws faster than Joey Chestnut eats Nathan’s Hot Dogs on the Fourth of July. So, rather…
“How can the same s**t happen to the same guy twice?”
By POV – Impawards, Link John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. According to multiple reports, among them, this one from Evan Simko-Bednarski and Anna Sturla reporting at CNN,…
You’ll never guess which state has joined NY and CA by banning grooming and hairstyle discrimination at work
By Alexrk – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link Water is wet. Grass is green. And, yes, New Jersey remains the employee-rights capital of the East. Actually, since we’re talking about New Jersey, I really should have said ‘wooder’ is wet for the South Jersey folks and ‘wourder’ is wet…
Finally, the EEOC has come around on arbitration agreements as a condition of employment
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (https://photofunia.com/results/5dfae5ac089f7ac0528b45a3) And it only took 22 years. Back in 1997, Puff Daddy — he was Puff Daddy back then — was burning up the charts with his Biggie Smalls tribute, I’ll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans and 112). Meanwhile, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released…
Dammit! They’re practically twisting my arm to blog about union-related stuff.
Image by Darrin Kiessling from Pixabay “So, Meyer thinks his organized-labor blog posts go over like wet farts, does he? Fam, let’s announce one — no, TWO HUGE DECISIONS in one day, and we’ll see how he gets around writing about them. That blogger nerd!” — National Labor Relations Board…
This former employee who was fired for social media posts will get his job back. But, your employees probably won’t.
Raymond Wambsgans from Akron Ohio, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAt dinner the other night, someone asked me what I did for a living. So, I told that person that I’m a blogger dammit and people respect me for it an employment lawyer. She responded with words to the…
Big changes may be coming to the way your business makes religious accommodations for employees
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board announced that it will revamp union-election rules to “better ensure the opportunity for litigation and resolution of unit scope and voter eligibility issues.” In other words, it’s a very employer-friendly move. You can read all about it here, here,…
The DOL announces a Final Rule to help you offer perks and benefits to your employees and still pay those workers properly
Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay Back in March, when I debated going on the lam after some completely innocent child labor wage-and-hour shenanigans, the United States Department of Labor announced that it was going to work on a new rule to clarify how companies calculate overtime for…