Chris Potter / CC BY An employer may find itself in hot water for firing an employee absent with COVID-19 symptoms — even a low-grade fever — regardless of whether s/he is eligible for leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. How do I know this? Well, the other…
Connetmiller / CC BY You can either read it here. Or, you can relax with a morning scotch latte and watch me explain it in this latest video from The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel. (Click here to subscribe). Either way, enjoy! P.S. – If you missed yesterday’s blog post about…
\\\ This two-page memo from the Executive Office of the President made several headlines on Friday. Here’s a sampling: White House Orders End Of ‘Un-American’ Racial Sensitivity Training At Federal Agencies (Huffington Post) Trump orders stop to ‘White privilege’ diversity training in federal government (Washington Times) Trump Bans Diversity Training, Claiming…
Image Credit: https://www.pikist.com/free-photo-sdkka As an employment lawyer and blogger, I’ve seen and heard a lot. But, I’m having a tough time wrapping my head around this one. How could this even happen? Yesterday, a college sued its former baseball coach in federal court. The reason the case is in federal…
Map of USA with state names.svg: Wapcapletderivative work: Pikne / CC BY-SA Hint: It’s not Alabama, which is dead last. By the way, if you’re a little confused about the state map at the top of this blog post, it’s Estonian. We embrace all cultures and national origins here at…
Image Credit: https://pixy.org/528010/ I’ve got a hypothetical situation for you. ABC employs Sally. Sally’s father, John, is a third-party vendor who sells widgets to ABC. One day, Sally files a charge of discrimination with the EEOC against ABC, claiming to be the victim of gender discrimination. Eventually, Sally resigns and…
Image Credit: Alexas_Fotos (pixabay.com) I love my readers. But there are many added perks of being a client. For example, you get the daily blog posts. Plus, I toss in free weekend updates. (Yes, I sleep, but rarely.) In this past weekend’s update, I detailed how the U.S. Department of…
By John Dorwin – <span class=”int-own-work” lang=”en”>Own work</span>, Public Domain, Link In its recent COVID-19 Americans with Disabilities Act guidance, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraged that employers be flexible in determining accommodations for employees during the pandemic. Some suggestions included temporary job restructuring of marginal job duties, temporary…
Image by Jody Davis from Pixabay On Wednesday evening, the players on the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks shocked us all. They voted not to play their scheduled playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake. Mr. Blake is a 29-year-old African-American man whom a Kenosha,…
Image by Pexels from Pixabay On Tuesday, a prescient reader emailed me to suggest a blog topic. He wondered what the labor and employment law implications would be if a bunch of athletes refused to play a scheduled game in protest of social/racial injustice. And then, yesterday, the Milwaukee Bucks…