By The All-Nite Images from NY, NY, USA (Black Lives Matter Black Friday) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsA white man who cast himself as a rising star at a midwest bank claimed that his trajectory plummetted after he posted a message on Facebook criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.…
I am pleased to share my guest contribution to the Philadelphia Business Journal. If you subscribe to this blog to receive daily emails, you must update your subscription preferences. You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/megaphone-speaker-speakers-speak-3272636/) Here are the important announcements: First, if you subscribe to this blog to receive daily emails, you must update your subscription preferences. You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help comply with GDPR…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/nurse-temperature-thermometer-309731/) [UPDATED (12:30 PM Eastern): I made a few mistakes in the original post that I am correcting now. First, the link to the paid sick leave law was to a prior version of the law. I corrected that with an updated link. Second, employees can accrue…
Image Credit: FreeStockPhotos.biz (http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15030) We employment lawyers have stories upon stories. When it comes to the employer-employee relationship, especially when that relationship hits the skids, we’ve seen it all. But, every once in a while there comes a story that even raises my eyebrows. Last week, the EEOC issued a…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/interview-job-icon-job-interview-1018333/) Last year, Philadelphia passed a law that banned 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 local Chamber of Commerce went to federal court to attempt to block…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/gabriel-moral-illustration-art-2519793/) I haven’t seen Avengers: Infinity War yet. So, no spoilers here. But, I imagine that even if the good guys can combine forces to beat the comic villains, they would still lack the legal acumen to master employee benefits. For that my friends, you need a real…
By US Army [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsLate last week, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation to ban employers and employees from entering into non-competition agreements. According to a press release from Senator Warren’s office, the Workforce Mobility Act would accomplish not only…
By late! [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsLast Friday, I blogged about CareerBuilder’s Survey of bizarre excuses for being late to work. And, don’t get me wrong, there were some good ones in there (e.g., “I was here, but I fell asleep in the parking lot.”), but I had a sneaking…
By Darwinek [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia CommonsIn late March, I blogged here about how it was only a matter of time before the State of New Jersey would require local employers to provide men and women the same pay and benefits for performing substantially similar work. Well, mark your…