Following an array of state and local paid leave laws and loud calls from employers and prominent business groups, Congress has introduced a bill to make paid leave on a federal level a reality. But the legislation probably isn’t what HR pros were expecting. The Workflex...
When it comes to job postings, the search process can be a little overwhelming. And when candidates are overwhelmed, it winds up hurting the hiring companies. Applicants today are faced with creative, wordy descriptions of companies looking for motivated individuals who can “hit the ground...
When a New York City underwriter walked past a life-sized poster of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in his Manhattan office, little did he know it would set off a chain of events that would eventually lead to his termination. As the New York Post...
Can you fire an employee for expressing their discriminatory views, or is that speech protected? This was the question the NLRB answered when addressing a recent wrongful termination complaint. Ex-Google employee James Damore, now infamous for that 10-page memo he wrote (claiming that biological differences were...
Now is the perfect time for a review of your I-9 compliance efforts for a number of reasons. For starters, the most recently revised form became mandatory in the fall. Plus, the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency (also known as ICE) can investigate...
Good news: The feds just gave employers more incentive to offer internship programs. In a new Field Assistance Bulletin by its Wage-and-Hour Division, the DOL announced it’ll be dropping the more-comprehensive “six-factor test” for determining whether an intern qualifies as an employee entitled to at least...
Almost everyone knows how difficult the loss of a beloved pet can be. But is it upsetting enough to qualify for FMLA leave? One employee, who was having a particularly hard time coping with the loss of his dog, thought so. Joseph Buck worked as a...
Though several court rulings have sided with employers that denied extended leave as an ADA accommodation, the issue is far from settled. And a recent lawsuit shows that employers denying additional leave is still a risky proposition. Previous rulings all dealt with employees asking for multi-month...
As I have written here quite frequently in the past, the social justice freaks that are being churned out by todays colleges are terrible workers. Not only that, but they are actually crazy, taking offense at reality and driving everyone around them insane with their...
Continuing from the most recent article of this name, we will now move on with the saga of the social justice freak who spent two days grinding all productive work in the kitchen to a halt, all so she can make everyone else dance around...
In the last piece titled this way, I started telling a story. I will now continue that story. We were holding where the new employee cut down on the already to small kitchen workforce with an accusation, an accusation that also forced the whole management to...
When it comes to FLSA enforcement, the notion of a more employer-friendly DOL is quite foreign to HR pros. But with the agency’s latest move, it seems like that’s exactly what it’s going for. The DOL just announced a new pilot program called the Payroll Audit...
