Your HR Guide to Hurricane Milton
As I write this post on Wednesday night, Hurricane Milton is making landfall in Florida as a category three...
Category: Employer Handbook
I’m pretty sure I found Exhibit “A” in a new EEOC pregnancy bias lawsuit. It will blow your mind 🤯
Yesterday, the EEOC announced that it had sued an employer for allegedly denying a new hire request to leave training...
Should it be harder for straight workers to prove bias than gay workers? How about a heightened standard for white workers to prove discrimination? The Supreme Court will decide.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees and applicants based on...
Join us on Zoom on Friday, October 11 for “To the Dark Side (or perhaps seeing the light).”
I want you to meet Alex Meier. For many years, Alex represented clients of one of the leading management-side...
Will you help a friend impacted by Hurricane Helene?
Ranae Sheppard is lucky to be alive. A wife, mother of four, and integral litigation support provider to law...
With so many religious holidays coming up, make sure your managers don’t do THIS.
Many of your employees and applicants will celebrate religious holidays between now and the end of the year. Today,...
The EEOC just sued some employers for preventing transgender employees from using restrooms consistent with their gender identity
In 2015, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined that a federal agency that denied an employee equal access...
If your pregnant employee experiences a stillbirth or miscarriage, whatever you do, don’t do this
Today’s lesson is about the interplay between the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires employers to accommodate known disabilities...
THIS must be part of your 2025 anti-harassment training if it’s not already,
In the past week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has brought two lawsuits against employers that allegedly violated...
Do we have to hire the best candidate for the job … if they have a visible Swastika tattoo?
I’ve read this post and this post about this recent lawsuit about seven current and former employees who claim...
The FTC is appealing one of its non-compete losses. Should employers be nervous?
Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission filed a notice of appeal with the United States District Court for the Middle...
A 100%-healed policy may 100% violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act
Last week, we discussed an FMLA policy that your business needs to rip from its employee handbook and burn...
Why would an employee sue his employer for offering him 100% telework as a disability accommodation?
Folks, I’ve lost track of the number of disability accommodation requests on which I’ve counseled human resources concerning employee...
What happens when a company terminates someone for FMLA fraud when they weren’t actually misusing it?
Oh, I thought you knew. Ok, fine. I’ll answer my own question. Let’s look at a recent opinion from...
Lying lawyer loses lawsuit. Let’s look.
André Koehne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Early in my career, I learned that it’s bad form for...
Rip this FMLA policy out of your employee handbook. And burn it with fire.
Employers that maintain a policy of treating any employee unable to return to work following the expiration of FMLA...