Especially if you’re gonna claim discrimination when you eventually get fired.
That’s among the takeaways from a recent federal appellate court ruling reinforcing the importance of enforcing workplace policies, particularly those related to safety. Continue reading
As I write this post on Wednesday night, Hurricane Milton is making landfall in Florida as a category three storm. 1.3 million people are without power, and forecasters warn that Milton could generate a storm surge with inundations of 12-13 feet.
Many of you with businesses in Florida will have closures this week. When companies shut down due to weather, employment issues arise. I can’t cover all of them in this post, but below, I’ve tried to outline some of the more prevalent federal issues with links to helpful resources.
I’ll bet nowhere on your HR job description is there anything about serving as the religion police.
Although the vast majority of businesses implemented a written COVID-19 policy at one time or another, many have eliminated or stopped updating those policies. Continue reading
The other day, a partner asked me about COVID-19 policies and how clients may still implement them.
Candidly, it wasn’t something I’d thought about for a while. Continue reading
In what it describes as “streamline[d] COVID-19 guidance,” the latest COVID-19 updates (here and here) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention don’t appear to distinguish between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
Potayto, potahto.
On Friday, attorneys for over 500 current and former healthcare workers at a Midwest healthcare system announced that they had settled “the nation’s first classwide lawsuit” for employees alleging that they were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from a COVID shot mandate. Continue reading
Days since I’ve blogged about COVID-19 = 78 0. Continue reading
On April 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that its Mask Order (requiring face masks on planes into and within the United States) would continue to allow the CDC time to assess the potential impact of the rise of COVID-19 cases.
Yesterday, however, a Florida federal judge struck the Mask Order in Florida and across the country, concluding that the CDC had exceeded its authority by instituting the Mask Order.
You can take the boy of the ’90s, but… Continue reading
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