Archive: November 2016

Stan Musial, Wade Boggs, Rod Carew, Honus Wagner, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio. Six of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball. And a...

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Lost in the maelstrom of the last week’s FLSA overtime rule injunction was the news that the EEOC issued updated enforcement guidance on ...

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Today is Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the holiday season. In fact, it is estimated that today will be the biggest onli...

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Yesterday I promised myself a blogging vacation until after the Thanksgiving holiday. And then Judge Amos L. Mazzant III dropped the bigge...

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Consider this the judicial equivalent of a  Hail Mary, or full-court buzzer beater, or a bottom-of-the-9th, 2-out grand slam. Judge Amos L...

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One law firm for which I used to work provided each staff member an annual Thanksgiving turkey as a holiday thank you to its employees. Wi...

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Lately, the news has been so grim, with elections , and overtime rules , and data breaches , and federal agencies that over-step  and over...

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It’s been a bad week for the Department of Labor in Texas, and it could get a whole lot worse before the month is over. On Wednesday, U.S....

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Of all of the decisions the NLRB has handed down in the past eight years, those that let striking employees lob racists and sexist bombs a...

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Dinner is always a bit of cluster in my house. We are a home of two working parents, and, with music lessons and band rehearsals three nig...

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The one employment-law question I’ve been asked most since waking up last Wednesday to the reality that The Donald will be The President (...

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Employers often tread too cautiously when handling employees on FMLA leave. Despite this caution, courts will to side with an employer tha...

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I heard that there was this huge meeting at the White House yesterday.  A photo posted by Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) on Nov 10, 2...

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As someone who’s been blogging as long as I have, nearly all of my life experiences run through my blogging filter. “How can translate this...

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It’s been more than a year since the EEOC first announced that it would accept LGBT-discrimination charges as sex-discrimination charges ...

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The EEOC has posted webinar recordings of two significant new rules: Wellness and EEO-1 requirements.

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An article entitled, “ Obama overtime-pay rule prompts changes, requires loans, as Ohio universities adapt ,” which ran last week on Cleve...

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Elevate HR is the largest virtual HR conference in the world. And, for the second straight year, I am thrilled to be one of the more than 50...

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All the way back in 2014, I wrote the following : An employee must ask for ADA accommodation to receive it. That is, an employee must ...

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Tuesday is Election Day (oh, thank God). As long as Election Day remains a working day, employees will show up to work late, leave work...

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Are you still struggling with how to handle your currently exempt employees who,  one month from today , will earn less than $913 per week...

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