Archive: April 2017

How did I not know this was a thing? Last summer, The Beatles released a remix of my favorite song of theirs, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”...

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Yesterday, I had a pleasure of presenting a webinar for The Builder’s Exchange: The Top 6 Employee Handbook Mistakes . For your viewing plea...

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I’m on record as calling Philip Miscimarra “mad as hell,” referring to his scathing dissents in recent NLRB protected concerted activity...

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It’s been two years since the NLRB determined that section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act protected an employee’s profanity laced ...

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Last week, President Trump signed his “ Buy American, Hire American “ Executive Order. The EO encourages American businesses to buy American...

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Two stories I’ve recently covered— Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly sex harassment problem and Ernest Angley’s wage-and-hour problem —had pret...

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If you are a private employer, it is 100 percent illegal for you to provide employees comp time in lieu of overtime for hours worked by no...

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The 6th Circuit is currently considering whether Title VII’s definition of “sex discrimination”. EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral ...

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How high is the bar for what qualifies as unlawful sexual harassment in the 4th Circuit? Pretty damn high, if you ask me. Consider that in...

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In Saleem v. Corporate Transportation Group (2nd Cir. 4/12/17) [pdf] , the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether a company prop...

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You say you want to see a sad clown sing a mashup of The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” to the tune of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues”? I’ve got...

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Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL, wrote that “[w]herever trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most...

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Lots has been said about how United Airlines mishandled violently dragging a passenger from an overbooked flight. And none  of it is good. Y...

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Bill O’Reilly’s (alleged) lewd comments and inappropriate come-ons may have finally caught up to him and his employer, Fox News. I don’t, h...

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What does unlawful retaliation not look like? Burton v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Wisc. Sys. (7th Cir. 3/17/17)  offers a good example...

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I’m always on the lookout for new bands. This week brings us a good one—Diet Cig, whose debut album drops today. Enjoy . Here’s what I ...

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If you’re on Homeland, and operating a covert, CIA backed, sock-puppet misinformation operation, where do you hang your workplace posters? I...

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If you spend any time reading or watching the news today, you will inevitably encounter much about the 7th Circuit’s historic (and corre...

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The legal standard for an “adverse action” to support a claim for workplace retaliation is pretty low. How low? According to the Supreme C...

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Donald Bush worked as a chef manager for Compass Group. According his written job description, his duties included routinely lifting more ...

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