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Friday, July 12, 2019
WIRTW #559 (the “Happy Birthday D-Man” edition)
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This guy turns 11 on Sunday. Happy birthday Donovan! Please keep making us smile. Here’s what I read the past two weeks. Disc...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Rob Mendez won the Jimmy V Award at last night’s ESPYS, and it might be the most inspiring thing you’ve ever seen
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Rob Mendez coaches the JV football team at Prospect High School in Saratoga, California. He’s also lived his entire life with no arms and no...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Why are employers testing job applicants for prescription medications?
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During a pre-employment medical examination and drug screen, an applicant tests positive for Alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax (a medic...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
NLRB offers significant and important guidance on its new(ish) employee handbook rules
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It’s been just over 18 months since the NLRB decided Boeing Co. , perhaps its most significant decision in decades. It rewrote more than a...
Monday, July 8, 2019
Why, yesterday, in France was a stadium full of people chanting “EQUAL PAY?”
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Indisputable fact no. 1: Women and men should earn the same pay for the same work. Indisputable fact no. 2: The players on the United St...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
4 ways your employees are like a new puppy
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We are on day 5 of new puppy in the Hyman household. Dante is adjusting well, as are we (including big sister Loula … more or less). It’s be...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
There’s no such thing as “reverse” discrimination—it’s all just discrimination
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According to the New York Post , a Caucasian 20-year veteran attorney for the Legal Aid Society is suing her former employer for race dis...
Monday, July 1, 2019
Don’t forget about overtime pay when providing bonuses to non-exempt employees
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Last week Chipotle announced a new bonus plan that could earn its employees up to an extra month of pay each year. Per the chain’s press r...
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Does an employer have a duty to protect the personal information of its employees? (Part 3)
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Employees trust their employers with a whole bunch of personal information. Social security numbers, medical documents, insurance records,...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Facebook video sinks employee’s FMLA claim
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Everything was going swimmingly for Thomas Dunger during his approved FMLA leave from his job as a mechanic for Union Pacific Railroad … ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Employers are making new dog ownership a little less ruff by offering “pawternity” leave
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In three days, my family grows by one. We’re adding a puppy. My wife and kids have been clamoring for a new dog for a year. Loula (our ...
Monday, June 24, 2019
The Customer isn’t always right: The Museum of Sex(ual harassment)
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Just because an employee works at The Museum of Sex does not mean that she wants be sexually harassed. Or least that’s what Katherine McMa...
Friday, June 21, 2019
WIRTW #557 (the “infinity and beyond” edition)
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Toy Story has played a huge party in my life. Donovan is a Toy Story fanatic. He’s seen every movie hundreds of times. He has what seems li...
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Is blockchain technology the next frontier in combating sexual harassment?
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According to Employee Benefit News , Vault Platform has developed an app that uses blockchain technology to allow employees to document a...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
The 12th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the disguised doctor
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Norma Melgoza, a long-time employee of Rush University Medical Center, is suing her employer for sex discrimination and equal-pay violatio...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
What’s a hostile work environment? You’ll know it when you see it.
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“I know it when I see it.” These are the famous words of Justice Potter Stewart defining legal obscenity in his concurring opinion in Jaco...
Monday, June 17, 2019
How long of a leash must you give an employee before firing?
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When a client calls me to ask for advice about firing an employee, the first question I always ask is, “What does the employee’s file look...
Monday, June 10, 2019
Do your employees understand that social media is a very public conversation?
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“It’s 2019. All of our employees have been on Facebook for years. Many are also on Twitter, and Instagram, and … We don’t need to do any soc...
Friday, June 7, 2019
WIRTW #556 (the “comfort zone” edition)
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My comfort zone is most definitely not at a biker rally. Yet, that's where I found myself last Saturday afternoon. The things we do for...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
An obituary for employment at-will
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Over at her employee-rights blog, Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home , attorney Donna Ballman asks, “ Is is time to terminate at-will emplo...
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