“Well, blow me down. Wimpy inspires a UK fast food chain, and all I get is this crappy can. Why I oughta…“ In anticipation of the current flu season, you decided to mandate that all employees get immunized. The problem is that one of your employees, a vegan, who won’t…
Whatcha get the blog for its birthday? Was it an iTunes subscription to Season One of Amish Mafia? Don’t judge the blog. The blog doesn’t like to be judged. After the jump, the selfless blog got you a recap of seven recent National Labor Relations Board decisions affecting your workplace……
Same s**t; different year. In 2010, an Ohio temp agency paid $650K as part of a Consent Agreement with the EEOC to settle claims that it had used code words in considering and assigning (or declining) job applicants. The code include words such as “chocolate cupcake” for young African American…
The newest right-to-work state is also the latest to ban companies from accessing password-protected social media accounts. On Friday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed House Bill 5523, prohibiting employers and educational institutions from asking applicants, employees and students for passwords and other account information used to access private internet and email…
*Do I need a disclaimer? Do I? What a year for The Employer Handbook in 2012! I’m most pleased that, in our second year of existence, readership more than doubled. Although, sadly, the one 2011 reader I had from Papua New Guinea never returned in 2012. I hope she is…
Cue music. Last week, a unanimous Iowa Supreme Court held (here) that it was ok for a male boss to fire a female employee — a model employee — out of concern that he would eventually succumb and do things with her that could jeopardize his marriage. That has to…
The Employer Handbook generally likes to end the year on a classy, high note. Consequently…. The Smoking Gun reports here that, earlier this month, the Social Security Administration issued this 5-page formal reprimand to an employee for his “awful and unpleasant” flatulence. {As opposed to my ambrosial flatulence. So lovely.}…
Thus far, you’ve managed to keep your equal-employment-opportunity nose clean. Good for you. In fact, with the economy the way it is, combined with the dwindling resources available to our federal agencies — including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — your odds of facing a federal investigation based on…
“Oy, Sharon! Will you help me out here?” “Come on, Ozzy! Yellow in the front, brown in —.” “Bloody hell, Sharon! I’m trying to comprehend this federal court decision from the District of Minnesota.” “Was that the one Judge Schiltz authored?” “Aye, Sharon.” “So, here’s what I don’t get. This fella…
Mark Toth and ManpowerGroups’s The Employment Blawg is hosting this month’s Employment Law Blog Carnival: Special Holiday Edition, a collection of 18 blog posts from some of the best employment lawyers on the interwebz. Got questions? They have answers. So be sure to check that out. That’s my gift (regifted,…