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Happy (?) Belated Equal Pay Day

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/money-finance-business-success-2696238/) I’ll be honest. Not only am I late by a day in recognizing Equal Pay Day, but I don’t know the etiquette. Is it “happy”? I can’t imagine why anyone would be happy about it. Heck, I just Googled and was immediately shown “11 Gender Wage…

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Remember the woman fired for flipping off the Trump motorcade? Now, she’s suing.

Image Credit: Photofunia.com Remember that time one of your employees: rode her bike, passed the President’s motorcade, was photographed giving him the middle finger, and became a national celebrity/spectacle (depending on your point of view)? For an employee of a Virginia GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR (oops!), it resulted in her termination of…

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It’s been a month, Eric. How’s life at FisherBroyles, LLP, the largest cloud-based law firm in the world?

Hey, thanks for asking! In a word: Hella-good. Unless that’s two words, in which case, I’ll go with awesome!!! My partners are more amazing than I could have imagined! Last month, in this post, I detailed four of the reasons that I joined FisherBroyles, LLP, one of which was that…

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Should it be unlawful to make employees check work email after hours? Some in NYC Council think so.

Image Credit: “cell phone zombies-1215” by jseliger2 on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/91262622@N02/14048254183) Woo boy! I’m sure that none of you have any strong opinions about this one. None whatsoever. 😁 A few weeks ago, New York City Council Members Rafael L. Espinal, Jr. and Alicka Ampry-Samuel co-sponsored a bill that would make it unlawful for private…

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Two more learn the hard way that off-the-clock social media use can be a job killer

By Dennis Hill from The OC, So. Cal. – misc 24, CC BY 2.0, Link When will people learn? (Although, if they do, I’ll have less about which to blog.) Hosting a White Supremacist Internet Show Is a Bad Look For a Middle School Teacher It’s a bad look for…

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Yesterday’s Supreme Court wage-and-hour decision in Haiku. Great Haiku!

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/autohaus-car-dealers-auto-sales-2138927/) Service Advisors at an auto dealership don’t get overtime They are salespeople, primarily engaged in servicing autos. A dictionary textual analysis It is all you need It’s wrong to construe FLSA exemptions narrowly. Really. That premise is flawed. The Ninth Circuit can pound sand, says the…

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Stereotype or not, firing a French waiter for acting rude probably doesn’t violate the law.

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/cartoon-character-waiter-idea-2947794/) A couple of readers suggested that I blog today about a waiter in Canada fired for “combative and aggressive” behavior, err, behaviour towards other staff. The waiter has a simple defense, one that he has raised in a civil rights complaint. He’s French. ***cracks knuckles*** Does the…

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These crazazy interview gaffes have nothing to do with pending NJ employment bills

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/cartoon-interview-news-program-2897720/) Ok, enough with New Jersey for this week. Today, I blog on a lighter note. It’s Career Builder’s list of “The Most Unusual Things People Have Done in Job Interviews.” When you’re interviewing a job candidate, how long does it take you to figure out whether…

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Mandatory paid sick leave could be coming to New Jersey too.

By No machine-readable author provided. ChrisRuvolo assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsNew Jersey ain’t done yet, dudes! Yesterday, I blogged here about the big, err, HUUUUUUUUUUUGE gender pay equity bill that’s gonna become law in New Jersey very soon. Today, I bring you news of a paid-sick-leave…