Yesterday, I read this post from Sara Hutchins Jodka at Employer Law Report about how to pay employees for Daylight Savings Time work and comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Then I ate a big bowl of pulled pork and I thought to myself, “Damn, I’m feeling lazy tonight!…
In a few weeks, the National Football League owners are going to consider a proposed rule governing the use of the “N”-word during a football game. If the rule goes into effect, any team with a player who uses the “N”-word during a game, will be assessed a 15-yard penalty.…
But, faced with those facts, that didn’t stop one employer from moving for summary judgment and asking the court to dismiss a female employee’s claims of sexual harassment. Could the company have possibly prevailed? Find out after the jump… Oh wait, before we jump, I left out the part where…
I’ll bet the father didn’t “like” that so much. Get it? Dad is the former headmaster at a school in Florida. When the school failed to renew his employment contract, he sued for age discrimination and retaliation. Eventually the two sides settled, with the school to pay $10,000 in back…
The other day, Deadspin tweeted this headline: Carlos Martinez’s Twitter favorites: a big ol’ wall of porn http://t.co/SA3qss6nrr — Deadspin (@Deadspin) February 24, 2014 Now, before you say anything, remember, I read Deadspin for their keen insight into the world of sports. And sometimes that means reading a post about…
Three years at this blog without discussing mohawk hairstyles in the workplace. Now, two posts in one week. Which reminds me of the time I dressed up as BA Baracus for Halloween in law school Ah, yes. That mohawk….and BA’s fear of flying. Ties right into today’s post. (I love it…
Those four-letter federal employment statutes — FMLA and FLSA — can be a real pain in the ass, amirite? Today’s let’s focus on a major employer pitfall: intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The FMLA regulations define intermittently leave this way: “FMLA leave may be taken intermittently…
That social media policy of yours. The one in which you begrudgingly tolerate employee social media use on their own time and roadblock their efforts to use it at work. You may want to revise it. ASAP! Chad Brooks at Business News Daily reports here about a recent study by…
That’s how I start my next oral argument when defending a claim made under the Americans with Disabilities that one of my employer clients regarded an overweight plaintiff as disabled. So, who wants some of what I’m drinking today? Hey, it’s peppermint tea, jerk! And I’m not pulling this blog…
Here’s a little HR Pro Tip from your old pal, Eric. If, around Halloween time, an employee requests permission to hand out bags of candy containing “gospel tracts,” which depict Muslims and Catholics and state that they should all go to hell, you just go ahead reject that religious-accommodation request.…