Pole Vault by Mister Pixel from the Noun Project The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, AARP, and National Employment Lawyers Association think so. So, let’s discuss. Sixth Circuit: Age bias means age must be the sole reason for an employment decision. About a month ago, the Sixth Circuit Court of…
Image Credit: Photfunia.com Last Friday, I had a great time with special guest Abigail Morrow on The Employee Handbook Zoom Office Hour. (If you missed it, check out the replay here on The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel.) So let’s run it back this Friday at Noon ET on Zoom. This…
Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay Good question. Oh, you want me to answer? Fine, I’m up to it. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — perhaps you’ve heard of them — updated this guidance entitled “When You Can be Around Others After You Had…
Doctor’s note by Milinda Courey from the Noun Project Whoa! Slow down! There’s an unusual amount of smoking billowing from the blog servers. Let me check on this, and I’ll be right back. Crisis averted. A sketchy doctor’s note. When you receive a doctor note from an employee, one or…
Scabby the Rat, the infamous union picket line protest symbol, fears no cat — especially not this one. Scabby feared no man either, except for Peter Robb, the former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. GC Robb, you see, was on a mission to deflate and exterminate ‘Ol…
Image Credit: Zoom and YouTube “I’m not a cat.” Bruh… I’m not a cat either. And I’ll prove it when The Employer Handbook Zoom Office Hour returns this Friday at Noon ET, when I’ll be joined by another non-cat, Abigail Morrow. Abigail is Assistant General Counsel at Staffmark Group, a…
Image by 1shortdesign from Pixabay A few weeks ago, one of the EEOC Commissioners asked me what more the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could do to assist the HR community. Right at the top of my list was a request for additional guidance on how businesses can help employees…
Last week, both the House and the Senate re-introduced two pieces of prior legislation. One would overhaul federal labor law — oh, is that all? The second is a new(ish) paid family leave bill that never made it to the President’s desk for signature. But, this time around, with the…
CC BY-SA 3.0, Link What is a hostile work environment? We hear that phrase used a lot. But what does the law consider to be a hostile work environment? You won’t find the words “hostile work environment” anywhere in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal…
Image Credit: The Noun Project On Monday, several business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and The Society for Human Resource Management, wrote this letter to Charlotte Burrows, the new Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. There’s just one thing they’ve got to know! Are you gonna…