Archive: July 2016

The Icarus Craft (with gold record) As you can tell from reading this weekly column, I’m a bit of a music fan. I’ve also always been fas...

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Buried in OSHA’s impending final rule on electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses is this little nugget. OSHA believes th...

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Do you employee minors? If so, you should be aware of the wage-and-hour laws for child labor . The Department of Labor, however, isn’t the...

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I have lots of readers. Thousands upon thousands. Do you know who doesn’t read my blog, however? Former DNC Chair (and Congresswoman) Debb...

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Ohio has a specific statute that protects injured workers from retaliation after filing a workers’ compensation claim. O.R.C. 4123.90 stat...

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The story of the week? Not the RNC, but Pokémon GO!, something about which I (happily) know very little. What does the blogosphere have to s...

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According to Politico , an IT company set up various fake Wi-Fi networks around the RNC with names such as “Google Starbucks”, “I vote Trump...

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By now, you’ve likely heard about the plagiarism flap that has embroiled the GOP following Melania Trump’s Monday-night convention speech. ...

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Employee claims her supervisor advised her not to apply for an open position because, “she is a single mother with kids and if [she] had to ...

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I read with interest this morning’s post on Eric Meyer ’s Employer Handbook Blog , entitled,  Court says employee’s Facebook page on race ...

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Happy 8th birthday (yesterday, actually) to the best son a dad could ask for. He hasn’t had the easiest 8 years, but he’s always smiling and...

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Every now and again I get a question from a client to which I don’t know the answer, or the answer surprises me. It doesn’t happen that of...

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Earlier this week, an African-American Nashville police officer was decommissioned for changing his Facebook profile photo to that of Black ...

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Paternalism and pregnant workers do not mix. Case in point? According to this EEOC press release , the agency has sued a North Carolina re...

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You’ve likely heard that former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes , her former boss...

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It’s been a while since I’ve given an update on upcoming speaking gigs, and I have a few upcoming. So, without further adieu. On July 27,...

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According to Boy Genius Report , archeologists in Iraq recently discovered a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablet, which the site artfully d...

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The drive to push local minimum wags in Ohio municipalities to $15 an hour may have hit a significant snag—Ohio’s Constitution. According...

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Last week, I suggested that the “FMLA is not a personnel-file eraser.” One does not return from an FMLA leave with a clean performance sl...

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Today I bring you greatest (only?) love song ever written about ramen noodles. Here’s what I read this week.

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