Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Wal-Mart (allegedly) did a 💩 job of accommodating this employee
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
A tip on tipped workers: pay them correctly or else
The Department of Labor has sued the owner of two restaurants claiming that servers were not properly paid overtime.
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Monday, March 27, 2023
What does an AI-written employee handbook look like?
Last week, I spoke at our sold out Wickens Workshop. The topic — employee handbooks.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
NLRB General Counsel goes nuclear on severance agreements in her guidance on McLaren Macomb
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo just released her Guidance in Response to Inquiries about the McLaren Macomb Decision.
Recall that McLaren Macomb held that garden-variety non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses in workplace severance agreements violate the National Labor Relations Act by unlawfully infringing upon the rights of employees to engage in protected concerted activity.
Just how far does Ms. Abruzzo push the limits of McLaren Macomb in her interpretation?
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
The 4th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the pizza shop pressurizer
Allegations of forced labor and the physical abuse of employees will always land you on my Worst Employer list.
Last week the feds arrested Stavros Papantoniadis, a/k/a Steve Papantoniadis, the owner of Stash's Pizza, on charges of forced labor related to his employment of an undocumented worker and forcing him to work for more than decade through threats of deportation coupled with physical and verbal abuse.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Federal court permits employer docking from an exempt employee’s PTO bank without violating the FLSA
I think it was Otis Redding who once famously sang, "I'm sittin' on the dock of the pay." 🤔
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Monday, March 20, 2023
Sexual misconduct isn’t a “mistake”
Vince McMahon is the former CEO and current Executive Chairman of the WWE. It's former CEO because he was forced to step down after it came to light that he had allegedly authorized $19.6 million in hush money payments to female employees who had accused him of sexual misconduct. (It's what earned McMahon his nomination for 2022's Worst Employer.) It's current Executive Chairman because he returned to that position earlier this year after previous stepping down for the same reason.
John Cena is a full-time actor and former WWE star who recently returned to the company.
Consider the following recent Q&A between Cena and the Associated Press:
AP: Is it tough to reconcile the feelings you have toward Vince McMahon with the sexual misconduct accusations made against him?
CENA: No. I mean, everyone has the right to have their perspective. I have the right to have mine. When you love somebody, you take them as imperfectly perfect as they are. We all make mistakes, we all have poor decisions. Lord knows I've made my collection of poor choices. That doesn't mean I’m not going to love somebody. There's no way I can go on record and say I don't love Vince McMahon.
Sexual misconduct is not a mistake.
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