Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay In September, the State of Arizona sued President Biden to stop his vaccination mandate for private employers. Since then, several other states have threatened to sue to stop the mandate. But, no one knows yet what exactly the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard is going to…
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Word is, employees will have to pay for COVID-testing under the new Biden vaccine mandate.
Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay Last week, business groups asked the White House to delay President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private companies with 100+ employees “until after the holiday season.” Also, last week, labor unions asked the White House for additional worker protections beyond mandatory vaccinations. By…
The EEOC emailed me its INTERNAL Religious Accommodation Request Form. Want to see it?
Image Credit: https://www.maxpixel.net/Online-Dating-Email-Love-Letter-Email-Love-Tinder-4479544 Earlier this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provided additional information on religious objections to workplace vaccine requirements to its growing technical assistance manual. Thank you. But, yesterday, one of the EEOC Commissioners emailed me the actual form that the EEOC uses to process religious accommodation…
Are you in HR for a multistate employer? You can be sued individually for FMLA violations … in another state!
Image Credit: pxfuel.com I’ll wait while you clean your screen of the coffee you just spewed from your mouth. Here’s a not-so-hypothetical situation: You’re a compensation and benefits manager working out of Connecticut. One of your employees — let’s call her Plaintiff — lives in Delaware but works at a…
Business groups ask President Biden to delay COVID-19 vaccine mandates for a few months
Photo by form PxHere CNBC’s Spencer Kimball has reported here that “business groups are pleading with the White House” to delay President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine mandate for private companies with 100+ employees “until after the holiday season” because they fear it could that “cause a mass exodus of employees.”…
How to call applesauce on COVID-19 religious objections and other new advice from the EEOC
Image Credit: Eric Meyer I meant to write a blog post on Sunday evening to go up yesterday. But, here’s the thing. After Seattle, I flew to Las Vegas for the Eagles/Raiders game. And what I witnessed on the football field on Sunday afternoon, I spent some time in the…
A federal judge made it really dang hard to prove medical marijuana discrimination
CommunistSquared, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Greetings from Seattle. Before I begin my day of **checks notes** culture and refinement, I figured I’d blog first about this recent opinion from a federal court in Pennsylvania. It involves an individual — let’s just call him “Plaintiff” — who claimed that his former…
Where in the world is Eric Meyer?
Image Credit: Eric Meyer On Tuesday, I departed the Bloggerdome at 3 PM in my hovercar — per usual — and boarded an actual plane at PHL a few hours later where I flew Ultra First Class — in front of the cockpit. On the flight, I binged a few…
I’ll give you nine examples of what the law does NOT consider retaliation.
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Retaliation is the number one employment claim that workers pursue. Prevailing, however, is not that easy. To establish a claim of retaliation, an employee must produce enough evidence for a reasonable jury to conclude that (1) s/he engaged in a statutorily protected activity; (2) the employer took…
What a 🥴 private school in Florida can teach us about COVID-19 medical accommodations
Image Credit: Google Street View While warming up benching 315 lbs. at the gym yesterday, I listened to The Howard Stern Show. And I heard Howard talking about a private school in Florida that — get this — will force students to stay home for 30 days after every COVID-19…