Over yesterday’s lunch hour, SHRM hosted a fantastic webinar entitled, “Changes to the Department of Labor’s Overtime Rules,” featuring Michael Eastman and Nancy Hammer. If you missed it, and you’re interested in learning more about the single most important change in the law for 2016 to impact your business, you can catch…
You won’t find this one on the SAT’s. Nope, that math is courtesy of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in this recent opinion, in which a nursing home patient subjected the plaintiff, a phlebotomist, to, well, you read the lede. And all of that happened over a span of just…
I tweeted this yesterday, but, lest anyone missed my admonition, I’m giving it its own short post. Folks, recreating an ISIS beheading and posting the video on Instagram is no way to build trust and workplace camaraderie. That’s an HR pro tip from yours truly. (h/t The Sun) Image Credit:…
We all know that the Americans with Disabilities Act makes its unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an individual on the basis of his or her disability. But, the Act has even broader protections for employees. The ADA expressly prohibits “excluding or otherwise denying equal jobs or benefits to a…
A federal appellate court just blew up the U.S. Department of Labor’s spot. Allow me to explain in slightly less colloquial fashion. Fart, #themoreyouknow, YOLO (There, out of my system…) The DOL six-part internship test. In 1947, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized (here) that certain unpaid workers should not be treated…
For blog fodder, but, mostly for my amusement, I have a Google Alert for “fired AND facebook OR twitter.” Usually, it’s just a hit or two. But, yesterday, I hit the jackpot. You have the cop making the racist comments, another police officer whose “discretion” resulted in a facebook photo…
Hey lawyer! Drop the selfie stick and slowly back away… Somewhere between the time that I took this selfie at the start of my FMLA/ADA session at the 2015 SHRM Annual Conference, and a few minutes later when the laptop with my PPT lost power (so, right when my bowels gave out heart…
You can find it here. I’d love to hang around and offer my commentary, but I’ve got a thing. Image Credit: “Chevy Chase 1976” by photo by Alan Light. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Ok, presumably, I’m not the only employment lawyer trying to apply the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges to the employer-employee relationship. But, I can guarantee that this will be the best post you read about it today. #noguarantees In case you’re just returning from a long-weekend sojourn to Mars, on…
A friendly reminder that, just because your job description might say what an employee is supposed to do, doesn’t mean that’s what your employee actually does. And, in an Americans with Disabilities Act case, here’s why that matters… At 7:00 am (yawn) on Tuesday, June 30, I’m presenting “My Employees Can…