Håkan Dahlström, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Plus, I get to start the week right by citing a source called “Russian Machine Never Breaks.” Not this one, but this one. ***chef’s kiss*** At the aforementioned Russian Machine Never Breaks, Ian Oland reports that a Canadian professional hockey team has fired…
Image by Mike Braun from Pixabay On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate based on sex, also prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender…
Image by Kristin Baldeschwiler from Pixabay You and me, we’re a lot alike. I mean, I feel you. It’s tough enough to retain and immediately recall all of the various federal, state, and local guidance on COVID-19. Take the quarantine/isolation rules, for example. Between the various state rules for interstate…
Image by PIRO4D from Pixabay No, I haven’t been drinking. But, perhaps starting to show my age a bit — just a bit — I had one of those “angry man yells at cloud” moments recently as I lamented about how MTV doesn’t make music videos like they used to.…
Image by Shonda Ranson from Pixabay Late last week, the EEOC revised and released three publications that discuss how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) apply to veteran employees and those who employ them. The revised publications are: EEOC Efforts…
Image Credit: reassign by Ralf Schmitzer from the Noun Project Imagine that you have an employee who becomes disabled and can no longer perform the job’s essential functions. Being the good employer that you are, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, you engage the employee in an interactive dialogue…
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay Traditionally, on the day before Thanksgiving, I release my list of the top Thanksgiving foods. But we’re doing things a little differently this year. It all began when I heard that Whole Foods retired my favorite Sweet Potato and Marshmallow Casserole, which I dominate…
Amy and Eric are talking COVID-19 and Thanksgiving on YouTube. Only in 2020… I had intended to keep the typing to a minimum today by sending you over to The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel, where I posted this video in which my colleague, Amy Epstein Gluck, and I tried to…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Employers generally pay the lawyers representing them by the hour. Conversely, employee-rights attorneys generally representing plaintiffs in these types of cases do so on a contingency basis, meaning…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Imagine if one of your plant managers organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19. That’s one of the scandalous allegations in a pair of amended complaints filed in federal court last week. You…