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The Employer Handbook BlogHere’s hoping employers in states like PA paid nonexempt employees for COVID-19 temperature checks at work. Otherwise…
Technically, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth. But that’s not really the point of this post. So, I’ll digress.
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Does federal law forbid discrimination based on interracial relationships? Two courts disagree.
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A white employee complains in writing that a colleague called his biracial grand-niece a “monkey” and texted him racially offensive comments about his coworkers. Within months, the employer fired the complainant.
Is this retaliation? Continue reading
Like ordering a cheesesteak with Swiss, employee-friendly OT rules just aren’t meant to be in PA
Let’s face it. Unlike its neighbor, New Jersey, a/k/a the California of the East, not many would label the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania an employee-friendly state. Continue reading
Gas up the Bugatti for the commute! Pennsylvania has relaxed its private sector restrictions on teleworking.
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Come on, Eric! Yesterday, you blogged about Philly, and now this. What’s with all the Pennsylvania posts this week? Continue reading
A federal court just greenlit the failure-to-accommodate claim of a medical marijuana user. But why?!?
Oh, I was just asking. I thought you knew. Continue reading
Can you fire an employee for complaining that the company violated state/local COVID-19 orders?
Often, readers of the blog will email me recent blogworthy HR news.
Occasionally, an attorney will send me a favorable decision that s/he obtained for a client on an employment law topic that may interest readers of this blog. Today, that’s what I’ve got for you — a case involving some healthcare workers who claimed that their former employer fired them for complaining that the company was not following state and local COVID-19 mandates. Continue reading
Heads up! Check to see if your state and local quarantine rules have changed recently.
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Last week, I wrote here about how the CDC had changed its guidance on COVID-19 close contact. As a result, lots of state and local guidance became misaligned with the federal change.
But now they’re catching up. Continue reading
Vlog and Blog COMBO! COVID-19 and Thanksgiving. Plus, a new telecommuting mandate in PA
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 answer the question: “How should businesses handle employee travel for Thanksgiving?”
Then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf went and signed this new Executive Order yesterday that significantly changes how local employers will do business for the foreseeable future. Continue reading
That time when all the employment lawyers got paid and the litigants got zilch!
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Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Continue reading
Heads up, PA employers! The Commonwealth just strengthened its COVID-19 mask and testing rules 
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Pennsylvania businesses with employees who report to the office will need to update their workplace policies in light of some new rules effective this week. Continue reading