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It takes two to make a thing go right. It takes two to make it out of sight, palatable enough for bipartisan support. It took some doing, but the State of New Jersey finally has itself a workplace social media privacy law, becoming the 12th state to restrict company…
Imagine, if you will, that two years ago you hired Amanda Bynes to be your Social Media Manager. Things are going pretty smoothly, until your customers begin complaining that company’s Twitter feed has gone from informative and witty to curious and more-or-less bizarre. After reviewing the tweets for yourself, you…
In that handbook of yours should be a page — maybe a few lines — on an employee’s responsibility to notify you if they are going to miss work. Who to call, when to call, that kind of stuff. A recent case from the Sixth Circuit (this one) reaffirms that…
That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” Today, I’m speaking at the EEOC EXCEL Conference in Denver, CO. It’s an incredible honor, given that this is the…
Monday is Labor Day, the day I plan to break the Guinness World Record for twerking and eating BLTs — they call it BLTwerking a tribute to the American Worker. If you give your employees the day off on Labor Day, a national holiday, do you have to pay them?…
On Friday, a federal court in Georgia dismissed all of the remaining discrimination counts against Paula Deen and her brother, Bubba, after the parties reported to the court that the two sides had settled. The settlement terms are undisclosed. In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, Ms. Deen’s…
Do you have 50 or more employees working with 75 miles of one another? If not, see ya Monday. But if you do, check out the United States Department of Labor’s revised “Fact Sheet #28F: Qualifying Reasons for Leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act.” In light of the…
There are 11 states with social media workplace privacy laws making it illegal for an employer to require that an employee or applicant fork over a social media login and password. But, if a company in the other 39 states assumes that it has the green light to engage…
Welcome everyone to the latest edition of the Employment Law Blog Carnival. What Target and Wal-Mart are to back-to-school shopping, this is your one-stop-shop for the hottest trends in employment law. Your original carnival hosts for this month, my good pal Ari Rosenstein and the great folks at CPEhr.com asked…