Remember those “what’s wrong with this picture” games that we played as children? Something like this. Last night, I found the employment law equivalent from this recent Sixth Circuit opinion. [tl;dr: A colossal series of HR-compliance gaffes leads to a whopper of a jury verdict against the employer, which includes…
Public Domain, Link I conduct Fair Labor Standards Act (wage-and-hour) audits for clients. Among other things, I help them determine whether they are paying at least the minimum wage to all employees. But, more importantly, I confirm which employees are entitled to overtime (time-and-a-half for working more than 40 hours…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com This definitely caught me flat-footed. An implied duty to accommodate? I think not. Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law specifically states that no employer must “make any accommodation of the use of medical marijuana on the property or premises of any place of employment.” But the law is silent…
By U.S. Government – Extracted from PDF file here., Public Domain, Link I want to give a little shoutout to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with whom I am spending the day today in Atlanta at the 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference. So, today’s post…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay *Just about everything; enough to fill a 90-minute presentation that I’m giving tomorrow. Yes, I’ll be presenting “Medical Marijuana: What’s the Buzz?” in at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 22nd annual Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference in Atlanta, GA. EXCEL…
By Flickr user Tyler Silvest Wikideas1 (talk) 21:43, 7 November 2016 (UTC) – Here, CC BY 2.0, Link Well, it could. But, will the plaintiff win? That’s a different story. In this case, an employer accommodated an employee with chronic back pain for a long time. How long? Like 22…
De Wicker Paradise from New Rochelle, United States – Omni Consumer Products — Fight Club Soap – Logo Bar outdoor wicker is a favorite of ours! So is this find by tind., CC BY 2.0, Ligazón The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/vectors/resume-unemployed-job-unemployment-2163673/) Company A and Company B work together from time to time on certain projects. Both companies have invested a lot of time, money, and other resources into their respective workforces and do not want to risk employees switching companies. So, they enter into a no-hire or…
Image by fajar budiman from Pixabay Yesterday, I received an unsolicited email from a company called Pluto. Pluto claims to offer a text message harassment training course that helps startups get compliant in less than 5 minutes a day. So, I headed over to the Pluto website to learn more. Here…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5d37ca3746867947238b45bf) Sympathetic: sym·pa·thet·ic /ˌsimpəˈTHedik/ adjective feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy. synonyms: commiserating, commiserative, pitying, condoling, consoling, comforting, supportive, encouraging antonyms: unsympathetic, unfeeling Let’s use sympathetic in a sentence. “Juries are generally sympathetic to individuals who claim to have been sexually harassed at work.” Let’s try one more.…