Aotearoa at Polish Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsSpoiler Alert: the Federated States Of Micronesia had zero charges of discrimination Yesterday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its Fiscal Year 2018 enforcement and litigation data. Here’s what you need to know. Retaliation remains the top claim. Here are…
Public Domain, Link Many people forget that federal anti-discrimination law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, contemplates reinstatement of an employee as a remedy for discrimination. But, before I get to that, I want to thank everyone who responded to yesterday’s blog post. If I did a…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/photos/thank-you-thanks-card-message-note-515514/) I have two items I want to hit you with today, on both of which I’d love your feedback. The Employer Handbook Live Stream? I’ve been toying with the idea of adding a live video chat to the blog. It would go something like this: I…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com (http://photofunia.com/results/5ca8a63b846d788d968b457e) (What a strange thing to write on a window.) Even in New Jersey, where employment law is ‘Mister Rogers’ friendly to employees. It was not a beautiful day in the neighborhood. In Mister Rogers’s Land of Make Believe there was an electric trolley that no one…
Since pretty much everything is a letdown after exorcisms and sex questionnaires, I’m aiming particularly low today with a simple update on when you’ll have to file your EEO-1 Report and whether you’ll have to include employee pay data with the report. (By the way, I’m sorry about the late…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/vectors/devil-red-demon-cartoon-satan-29973/) Howard Stern interviewed Alec Baldwin recently. Mr. Baldwin was talking about going to anger management classes and realizing quickly that, well, he’s really not that angry. At least not compared to some of the other folks required to attend anger management classes. Now, consider your most…
TheBluZebra [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsThe last thirty days have been hecka-busy at the U.S. Department of Labor. On March 7, the DOL announced a proposed rule to adjust the salary-level for overtime exemptions. I blogged about that here. Then, on March 28, the DOL announced another proposed rule, one…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/money-finance-business-success-2696238/) Today is Equal Pay Day. What is Equal Pay Day? The National Committee on Pay Equity takes credit for originating Equal Pay Day in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. Do women as a group make less than…
Image Credit: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/marijuana-scales-legalization-drugs-2754249/) The case is called Wild v. Carriage Funeral Holdings, Inc. So, yeah, it’s “Wild.” And so as not to bury the lede, the court concluded that the plaintiff, a medical marijuana user, could pursue discrimination claims under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (the LAD) against his employer. …
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/oil-price-gas-station-news-fuel-990357/) I remember the time that the U.S. Department of Labor showed up unannounced to the Bloggerdome. It was yesterday. And, I’m pretty sure that the five-year-old ratted me out for paying my other three kids in Cheerios for installing a marble driveway. The driveway was a…