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Does the ADA protect an individual who uses prescription drugs to battle addiction to illegal drugs?
As the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s fiscal year comes to a close, the agency has filed a slew of discrimination lawsuits. One that caught my eye involves an employer that allegedly rescinded an offer of employment once it found out that the individual was using prescription drugs to treat his prior heroin addiction.
Wait a minute! Can’t you terminate someone who has abused drugs? Continue reading
NFL players take a knee and it seems like the only ones getting fired are firefighters.
I’m not writing today top rehash #TakeTheKnee. Been there, done that.
Rather, today’s post is a friendly reminder to all employees out there who want to express their opinion online about this week’s NFL protests.
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No, President Trump, NFL owners cannot legally fire players that #TakeTheKnee
And it has nothing to do with the First Amendment and freedom of speech. Continue reading
This military hospital’s social media cluster-you-know-what checks all the wrong boxes
Originally, I was toying with titling this post, “What Employers Can Learn From Military Nurses Who Pose Newborns Dancing to 50 Cent, Give Them The Finger, And Then Snap A Video And Photo Captioned, ‘How I currently feel about these mini Satans.’”
But, yesterday’s blog title was so long already. Continue reading
Company forces employee to sign a confidentiality statement or be fired, plays itself.
If you’re going to draw a line in the sand by telling an employee to sign something or be fired, here’s a pro tip:
Make sure that whatever you want signed isn’t unlawful. Continue reading
A recreational marijuana user was blowin’ hella smoke with these FMLA arguments.
Remember that scene in Animal House, the one where Donald Sutherland is sitting around with Katy and the some of the Deltas, smoking pot and discussing solar systems and atoms on the fingernail of a giant being? Continue reading
A “too cute” employee, her boss’s ex-Playmate wife, and maybe some sex discrimination
Honestly, I generally try not to resort to clickbait ledes or trending terms like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Solar Eclipse, Game of Thrones finale spoilers, and leaked Apple iPhone 8 images, to increase web traffic. That’s beneath a professional ***fart*** blogger like me.
But, since you’re here, please form a single-file line. My servers can only handle so many of you at a time.
Thank you. Continue reading
Employee free speech on social media? HA! HA! says federal appellate court
Remember when I told you (in this blog post, this article, and this tv interview) that private-sector employees have no First Amendment right, while government employees have limited free-speech rights?
Actually, I was telling the truth. Today’s blog post proves that. Continue reading
Post-Charlottesville, “Name and Shame,” and how employers can respond legally?
As I type out this post at 10:15 pm on Sunday evening, there are many reasons why I am thankful that NBC10 in Philadelphia tapped me for an interview that aired on Sunday. Not the least of which is that I can make this blog post a short one, link to the video, and get back to bingeing The Defenders on Netflix.
If you have 9 minutes and 24 seconds to spare today, and you missed last week’s blog posts on the subject, you can watch the video here.