Chrisdesign, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I’m going to tell you about a Family and Medical Leave Act lawsuit that, IMHO, could have easily been avoided. But before I do that, in keeping with the theme of this post, I want to invite you to a special edition of The Employer…
Image by eiden_kris from Pixabay One of your employees has a disability that prevents her from getting to work consistently. The problem is that regular attendance is an essential function of the job. So, remote work isn’t an option. Do you need to provide her transportation as a reasonable accommodation…
DrRandomFactor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Like Freddie Bisco, the Ferrari salesman from Scent of a Woman, I’m known from coast to coast like butter and toast. So when it comes to whether businesses can require their employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, who does KTUU Alaska’s News Source…
Image by Megan Rexazin from Pixabay On the last episode of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour, we told you that it was only a matter of time before the U.S. Department of Labor issued both guidance and model notices to support the new COBRA premium subsidy under the American…
Image by CryptoSkylark from Pixabay I know, right? Shocking! But it’s true, and I’ll explain why. “More than a de minimis cost.” On Monday, the Supreme Court decided not to review a case in which an employee claimed that his former employer failed to accommodate his religious beliefs by allowing…
Image by Martine Auvray from Pixabay Come on, Eric! Yesterday, you blogged about Philly, and now this. What’s with all the Pennsylvania posts this week? Ok, folks. I promise(ish). We’re (likely) done. In the remaining three posts, I’ll (probably) incorporate other states. Like tomorrow, I want to blog about how…
Pandemic Paid Sick Leave Notice to Employees Poster English It’s the city of cheesesteaks, brotherly love, and, as of March 29, 2021, paid leave for companies with 50 or more employees. Those businesses must provide up to 80 hours of paid sick leave to certain employees for specific COVID-19 reasons,…
Image by net workerz from Pixabay Apparently, her employer and the court thought so. That ominous sequence does not portend a successful FMLA lawsuit. Yet, that didn’t stop our plaintiff today from filing suit. Here are the underlying facts: The plaintiff asked her employer (the defendant) for permission to vacation…
Ivan Radic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Imagine a non-union widget factory in which widget makers want to unionize. As part of the unionizing campaign, one of the widget makers decides to wear a vest on which he writes “Widget Lives Matter.” Management is concerned that this vest is…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay A real tell was that the fake cards supposedly included the caption, “F**k masks.” Because mine doesn’t say that. ***flips it over*** Still no. Selene San Felice, reporting here at Axios Tampa Bay, appears to have broken the news that a marketing and web…