On Tuesday, NJ Governor Chris Christie issued this press release announcing bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen New Jersey’s already existing ban the box law, known as “The Opportunity to Compete Act.” NJ’s ban the box law, which I previously blogged about here, makes it unlawful for companies with 15 or more…
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Bloomberg’s in depth coverage of social media sex shenanigans at work is too good not to share
I know good clickbait when I see it. LinkedIn, Tinder, Potato, Potato. First, Polly Mosendz and Rebecca Greenfield report here at Bloomberg.com about how a managing director allegedly misread the signs and took a less orthodox approach to recruiting a candidate. He used his corporate LinkedIn account to share a picture…
ADA Pro Tip: Don’t order an employee to flush her meds down the toilet
That is stupider than stupid stupid. It’s also a central allegation in this complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity filed in a Georgia federal court last week. Here’s more from the press release: Hester Foods, Inc., the operator of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant franchise in Dublin, Ga., violated federal law…
586,860 and 3/4 reasons not to question the sincerity of an employee’s religious beliefs
Nearly four years ago, I blogged here about a complaint that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed against a West Virginia coal company. The lawsuit alleged that the employer failed to accommodate an employee who requested not to use a biometric hand scanner to track time and attendance. Why? Because…
Court says, yes, you can fire a worker whom you believe made up a discrimination claim at work.
Got that? It’s not just people who fabricate complaints of discrimination at work, but those whom you believe fabricated discrimination claims. Everybody, roar it with me, “Yassssss!” In Villa v. Cavamezze Grill, LLC (opinion here), the plaintiff was a low-level manager at a restaurant. Around Halloween in 2013, the plaintiff reported…
Remember when I told you that NJ was so employee friendly? I LIED!
What was I thinking? Just ask a plaintiff who not only lost on her state and federal discrimination and retaliation claims but, according to a New Jersey federal judge, “willfully deceived” both the employer-defendant and the Court “in bad faith and manipulated the judicial process.” So, earlier this week, the judge really…
Injunction? What injunction? New class action suit claims employer violated the new DOL overtime rules
This one’s got me confused like Britney on X-Factor. Last year, a Texas federal court entered a nationwide injunction against the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rules. Among other things, those overtime rules would have raised the minimum salary level needed for an employee to be exempt from receiving overtime…
There’s a certain irony when a TV personality gets fired for something caught on video
And when that video goes viral on social media, it’s not only ironic but quite blogworthy. So here we are… Emily Crane at the Daily Mail reports here that a Philadelphia television reporter has been fired. The reason? Well, she got into it with a police officer outside of a…
New Jersey is trying to out-California California
It’s kind of like one of those “your mama is so fat” one-up challenges I always used to giggle at on the school bus back in seventh grade. Except, instead of outdoing each other with “your mama” jokes, it’s employee-friendly legislation. And, no one is laughing. Here’s what may be…
The 6 Ways “Covfefe” Can Improve HR Compliance
It all began last week with a (possible) typographical error in a tweet from our 45th President, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” At first, President Trump’s tweet confused us; “covfefe” even stumped a spelling bee champ while creating a spike in demand for novelty license plates. But then President Trump doubled down on Twitter, “Who…