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The Employer Handbook BlogFollow along with The Employer Handbook from #SHRM16
I’m coming at you from Washington, DC at the Society for Human Resource Management 2016 Annual Conference & Exposition.
Me and 20,000 other HR professionals.
These sample employer-wellness program notices will make you the envy of all your HR friends
Want to sit at the cool table next week at SHRM16? Well, I’ll be there. So, if you’d like the secret password or just want to meet a real blogging-employment-lawyer legend in person, email me. (Yes, I’ll have some swag).
Or, head over the EEOC’s website, print out this Sample ADA Notice for your employer-sponsored wellness program, and memorize the EEOC’s “Questions and Answers: Sample Notice for Employees Regarding Employer Wellness Programs.”
Then, while the rest of those nerds are Snapchatting about Strategizing Radical Change by Becoming a Disruptive Leader, show ’em some side eye, and bask in your ADA/GINA compliance.
NJ Supremes: You can’t shorten the time for employees to file discrimination lawsuits
About two years ago, I blogged here about this decision from the NJ Superior Court, Appellate Division, where the court held that an employer and employee could agree to shorten the statute of limitations on employment claims. For example, in Rodriguez v. Raymours Furniture Company, Inc., conspicuously placed in its application materials, was language requiring that any employment-related lawsuit against Raymours be filed within six months of whenever the claim arose. Thus, if one of these employees was later discriminated against, he would have to file his lawsuit within six months (rather than within two years, as New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination permits).
EEOC has some new pregnancy discrimination resources to feed your HR brain
Head on over to the EEOC’s website (here) to check out:
Foul! Nasty tweets to Steph Curry’s family cost a Cavs fan his job.
Yep, that’s me honey dipping like Vince Carter. I’m an animal on the court. Especially, when the rim is set at seven six five feet at the local Children’s museum.
HR 101: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the importance of good job descriptions
Since all of you have mastered reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this post seems rather unnecessary.
Oh, that’s weird. Why is the there smoke billowing from my blog servers?
(Although that could still be there from last Friday).
My wife is a first-ballot Hall of Famer!
Eric not pictured (probably off blogging somewhere)
And, I already ruined this post with a sports metaphor. Dammit!
30,000 reasons to review your job applications now for unlawful questions
There is a growing trend across the country for employers to remove job-application questions about criminal-record history. Ban the Box notwithstanding, other common job application no-no’s continue to trip up certain employers.
Republicans toss up a Hail Mary to stop the new DOL overtime rules
On December 1, 2016, the new Department of Labor overtime rules will take effect. Yesterday, Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) announced (here) new legislation under the Congressional Review Act to to stop the overtime rules dead in their tracks.
You ever see that scene in Minions where the caveman tries to stop a bear with a flyswatter?
Keep preparing for the new overtime rules.
New EEOC lawsuit highlights the discrimination risks of mandatory flu shots
Last week, the EEOC announced (here) that it had filed this lawsuit against a Massachusetts employer, in which it alleges that the company violated federal law when it refused to effectively accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs.
It’s a wicked pissah!