If you are a Philadelphia employer, check out my post from February and this poster. While the new law requires employers of 10 or more to provide paid sick leave, those with 9 or few employees must still provide unpaid sick leave. If you haven’t done so already, update your employee…
Over the weekend, while enjoying my tea and krumpets twenty minutes alone in the bathroom free from four screaming kids, I read this story in U.K.’s Daily Mail about a Facebook post from a fast-food chain employee. Shortly after news hit about two police officers gettign shot and killed, she…
Last year, I channelled Bill Clinton in this blog post about how courts rarely recognize a single incident or two as creating what the law deems a hostile work environment. Yeah, about that. Even a few isolated comments can create a hostile work environment. In Boyer-Liberto v. Fontainebleu Corp. (opinion here), the full panel…
Folks, let me give you a little free Friday HR pro tip: If a female employee complains to a female manager that another male manager is sexually harassing her, it’s not ok to for the female manager to respond thusly, “He’s a guy and you work with guys. Ignore it and…
Did I ever tell you about the one in college we called “The Mad Pooper”? (Actually, we didn’t use the word “Pooper.” We used another word that better expressed our distaste for this individual). It was during my freshman year of college. More often than not after a night of…
Isn’t the Americans with Disabilities Act fun? Oh, right, it’s the federal employment law that y’all voted the one that keeps you up most at night. ADA garnered 30% of the votes in yesterday’s hella-lazy blog post of a poll. FMLA and FLSA tied for second with 23% of the…
Take a second and vote here. I’ll post the results tomorrow.
Ok. Let’s assume that I’m looking to fill another Blogprentice position here at the Bloggerdome. [FYI – The Blogprentice’s job is to massage my scalp during those brief periods of writer’s block or when I get the vapors, rub my feet at all other times, plus whatever tasks, reasonable or…
Courtesy of HRMorning.com, I’m just gonna leave this right here. Enjoy some tunes and have a nice weekend.
Sure, I could have used today’s post to address yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision about EEOC conciliation efforts. But this is The Employer Handbook. It’s not like I just got the call up to the major leagues. By now, my blog game is hella-strong, yo! I troll sites like TMZ and…