Search
The Employer Handbook BlogDon’t ruin your arbitration agreements by doing this…
Some of you require your employees to sign agreements requiring them to arbitrate employment claims — other than claims of sexual harassment or abuse, of course. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Hiring & Firing
POLL RESULTS: Should you fire an employee for supporting Vladimir Putin?
Suppose your company receives a complaint from an employee that one of his co-workers is voicing support for Vladimir Putin. The company investigates and validates the complaint. Can you fire the co-worker? Sure. We covered that yesterday. But that wasn’t the tricky question.
Should the company fire the Putin supporter? Continue reading
Can you fire someone for supporting Vladimir Putin?
Last week, I reminded employers that you can stand with Ukraine. Just remember to stand up for your Russian employees too. Many now stand with Ukraine against Vladimir Putin and his decision to invade Ukraine.
But suppose an employee, Russian or otherwise, speaks out in support of Putin. Can you fire him? Continue reading
Read this before you go ham on employees who badmouth your company online.
I’m not sure if we are still in the middle of the “Great Resignation,” the “Great Renegotiation,” or something else entirely. I am sure, however, that I could go for a great piece of coconut cream pie right now.
Additionally, I know that among life’s certainties are death, taxes, and employees complaining about their jobs. And those complaints are usually filed on social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit.
I understand that your company may be inclined to take matters into its own hands when employees complain on social media about work by, err, “facilitating” their exit from the company. But before you hand out any pink slips, read this post. Continue reading
Antonio Brown’s sad and disturbing exit from the Tampa Bay Bucs
All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers pulled off a tremendous late comeback to defeat the New York Jets yesterday. However, Tampa Bay Wide Receiver Antonio Brown’s abrupt exit during the waning minutes of the third quarter is what has people talking. Continue reading
These were the most popular employment law blog posts of 2021
If it had anything to do with COVID-19 vaccination mandates, y’all were reading. That and the third-most-read post, which leaves me wondering whether I should be taking out a restraining order against some of you. Continue reading
PSA: Hire a lawyer to draft your employment agreements. Otherwise, you may end up like this.
And by “this,” I mean spending a lot more on lawyers to defend a breach of contract claim from a former employee who claims that the employment agreement she signed promised a guaranteed year of employment.
Is it legal to fire over 900 employees at once over Zoom?
Image by Lynn Kurtz from Pixabay
News of a New York-based online mortgage lender’s CEO terminating over 900 employees with no notice on a three-minute Zoom call has been dominating my Google Alerts recently. Continue reading
A federal judge made it really dang hard to prove medical marijuana discrimination
CommunistSquared, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Greetings from Seattle. Continue reading
Joking around about COVID-19 can get you fired … and 15 months in federal prison too 😨
Image Credit: Piqsels.com
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Texas man received 15 months in prison for perpetrating a hoax related to COVID-19 after a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of 18 U.S.C. § 1038, which criminalizes false information and hoaxes related to biological weapons.
Here’s more from the press release: