I’ll save the “Five Workplace Lessons From LeBron James’s Return to Cleveland” post for the other bloggers. Here’s one — one which I guarantee you don’t find anywhere else: If during his time in Miami, LeBron James became a Fundamentalist Christian, and, upon filling out his new-employee paperwork with the…
Call it a cheap way to increase my SEO — Kim Kardashian Justin Bieber love child — but I’m ending the week the way I started it: with another social media post. Come you moths to my social media flame. Ha Ha! Made you listen to The Bangles! Good luck…
Last night, having come across this wacky Family Show gif, I couldn’t decide whether to binge watch the first season of Amish Mafia. Again. For the third time. (And, by third, I mean eighth). Or dip my English toe into the Breaking Amish pool. So, in an attempt to get…
Work with me here folks: Late last month, I had intended to blog about this Idaho case, in which a nurse was denied unemployment compensation benefits because of a threatening Facebook post. But, Molly DiBianca at the Delaware Employment Law Blog beat me to it. You can check out her…
A few months ago, I blogged about a California federal court decision, which recognized that Walgreens may have an obligation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to accommodate one of its cashiers who opened a $1.39 bag of chips (without having paid for it first) because she was suffering from…
A few weeks, ago I was speaking about social media and the workplace to a fabulous audience at the 2014 SHRM Annual Conference and Expo. (Email me if you want a copy of my slidedeck). One of my session themes was that there is no such thing as employees using…
How many times has an employee provided you with an incomplete Family and Medical Leave Act certification? Oh, I don’t know, maybe a missing return date… If the FMLA leave is foreseeable, then the employee must provide the employer with the anticipated timing and duration of the leave. However, where…
I’m often asked, “Eric, where do you find this stuff?” Why TMZ, of course. Break ’em off TMZ: “Whitney Wolfe claims in a new lawsuit — obtained by TMZ — she was mercilessly brutalized by the other execs who wanted to remove her title because no one would take a…
Mid-morning yesterday, the Internet broke shortly after the Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision in HHS v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.. Jeez, I’m still cleaning out my Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook feeds. In case your wifi, 4G, 3G, dial-up, TV, radio, and other electronics picked the wrong day to quit…
The Benjamin Moore color gallery contains, among others, Clinton Brown and Tucker Chocolate. My virgin ears! I mean, how racist can you get?!? Or, so says Clinton Tucker, a former Benjamin Moore employee, who filed a complaint in New Jersey state court in which he alleges that these paint names…