In a public meeting last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) examined the impact of employers considering only those currently employed for job vacancies. Do those employers who won’t consider unemployed individuals for vacant positions engage in unlawful discrimination? Find out, after the jump (or just watch my…
Keeping with this week’s smoking theme, I see that the The New York Times recently ran a story discussing how some employers are refusing to hire smokers. The article warns, ““Smokers now face another risk from their habit: it could cost them a shot at a job.” But is this…
“I know you don’t smoke weed, I know this; but I’m gonna get you high today, ’cause it’s Friday; you ain’t got no job… and you ain’t got sh*t to do.” – Smokey from Friday (1995). Back in 1995, when Smokey was trying to convince his buddy Craig…
Natalie Munroe, a Philadelphia-area teacher, was suspended last week after her school learned that Munroe had blogged that she wished she could tell students, among other things, that they were “rude, beligerent, argumentative, and utterly loathsome in all imaginative ways.” Ms. Munroe has since lawyered up, still blogs, and is…
Nothing really. But I needed to combine three topics into one quick blog post. On Genetics I will be presenting a webinar tomorrow (2/16) at 1:30 PM EST on how the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act will affect your company. If you had to click on the hyperlink, then you probably…
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Earlier this week, the internet was all a buzz with the news that an employer had settled with a former employee it fired for criticizing a supervisor on Facebook. If you think that this settlement signals that employers are powerless to discipline employees who criticize their employers online, think again.…
A company accused of violating federal law for firing an employee for comments she made on Facebook about her supervisor has settled. How does this settlement affect how your company can control employee engagement in social networking activities? The answer, after the jump. * * * Last year, the NLRB’s Hartford…
Recently, my friend Sharlyn Lauby, owner and sole proprietor of the HR Bartender Blog invited me to weigh in on a reader question about accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The reader, who is completely deaf, began developing neck pain at work because, the way her desk was positioned,…