Image by macdeedle from Pixabay Last year, I wrote here about a Florida high school principal who was fired because, allegedly, he refused to say the Holocaust happened because “not everyone believes” it actually occurred. Well, according to CNN, about a month ago, the school board picked the wrong week…
Image by Rebekka D from Pixabay How about the two new wage and hour opinion letters that the U.S. Department of Labor issued yesterday on esoteric Fair Labor Standards Act issues? Here they are: FLSA2020-15: Addressing the compensability of time that employees spend attending voluntary training programs in certain situations.…
H. Michael Miley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Let’s say that your child attends school either on a hybrid or full-time schedule. Your child comes into close contact with another person with COVID-19. The school instructs you to quarantine your child at home for 14 days while the class…
Image by Markéta Machová from Pixabay Back in March, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) into law. The FFCRA allows eligible employees to receive either paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. Recently, COVID-19 numbers have begun spiking…
Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Hot on the heels of yesterday’s blog post about mandatory face coverings for customers, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed this Executive Order designed to protect NJ businesses’ customers and employees further. (Technically, the EO preceded my blog post. But I’m not keeping score.) This press…
Image by Viktor Ivanchenko from Pixabay A few months ago, I blogged here about a lawsuit filed in a Pennsylvania federal court in which a plaintiff alleged that a grocery store’s inflexible policy of requiring all customers to face coverings — even the ones with documented medical issues — violated…
Rachel Malehorn, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Shout out to the 648 of you who participated in yesterday’s poll and weighed in on the newest Supreme Court Justice: Amy Coney Barrett. The survey had five questions, and participants were folks who read this blog or follow me on social…
Rachel Malehorn / CC BY As I’m typing this blog post at 10:56 PM on Monday, the Senate has voted 52-48 to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The vote was along party lines with all Republicans, except Susan Collins (ME-R), voting in favor of Justice Barrett.…
Alexas Fotos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Ordinarily, this is that time of year when I recycle an old Halloween post and ensure that the best blog readers in the world are prepared for the employees that exercise poor judgment when reporting to work on Halloween. Instead, I’m building a slingshot…
Zindox, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Consider this simple set of facts: Employee injures his knee; Employee requests FMLA leave; Employer says no because the FMLA leave would coincide with the employee’s hunting trip; Employee takes leave anyway; and Employer fires employee upon his return to work. Has the…