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Five fantastic resources to help your business address antisemitism in the workplace
I read a survey last night that blew my mind
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Join us on 12/9/22 at Noon ET for The Employer Handbook Zoom Happy Hour: “In-House Counsel’s Workplace Dreams and Nightmares”
This may come as a surprise to some of you, but the in-house company lawyers don’t always see eye-to-eye with the HR professionals,...
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Let’s rank the top Thanksgiving foods for 2022
Before you put away your robes and gavels, I need to judge one more thing: the annual Thanksgiving foods competition. It’s that time of...
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82% of you wannabe judges disagreed with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
In yesterday’s blog post (and on LinkedIn ), I asked you to adjudicate a white man’s discrimination claim. Specifically,...
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Are these two employees comparable? Today, you be the judge to help decide this discrimination case.
A white man who worked as a utility water meter reader sued his employer for racial discrimination after he was fired for inaccurately...
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Not one, but two Friday freebies (including FMLA/ADA tips and tricks on Zoom today at Noon ET!!!)
Well, if you count The Employer Handbook itself, which email gods magically deliver to blog subscriber email inboxes every weekday...
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President Biden is ready to sign a bipartisan bill ending certain sexual harassment NDAs
Democrats and Republicans don’t often see eye to eye on new employment legislation. Except, it seems, when Gretchen Carlson spearheads...
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Here’s how an employer violated the FMLA and still won the interference claim
The complexities of the Family and Medical Leave Act can bollocks even multi-billion-dollar companies. But the case I’m going to tell...
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Rarely-performed duties can still be essential ones under the ADA
I have another HR tip related to yesterday’s blog post and accommodating employees under the Americans with Disabilities Act and...
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Does the ADA force employers to allow employees with medical restrictions to overrule their doctors?
If you’re in Human Resources, you’ve probably dealt with this issue before. An employee with a disability submits a...
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Here’s why the National Labor Relations Board get may interested in non-union Twitter’s layoffs
Sections 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act) protect employees from retaliation for concerted protected...
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Did Twitter’s recent layoffs violate federal employment AND labor law?
It depends on who you ask. According to the plaintiffs and their counsel in this recently filed first amended complaint , the social media...
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Should an employer have provided a disabled employee with a “spitting” accommodation? A jury thought so.
This has been an interesting start to the week at The Employer Handbook, from six-year-olds slinging racial epithets to expectorating...
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A six-year-old can create a hostile work environment. Wait, what?!?
In my many years of practicing employment law, I’ve seen hostile work environment accusations leveled against owners, supervisors,...
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Join me on Friday, 11/18/22 at Noon ET for our next Zoom Happy Hour: Leave Management Cheat Codes and Hacks
The timing last night was perfect. I just finished uploading the video from last Friday’s edition of The Employer Handbook Zoom Office...