Archive: March 2022

To wrap things up this week, I thought I'd update two stories. 1/ UCLA Unpaid Job Posting In addition to taking down the offensive job p...

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Less than one and one-half miles away from the flagship Starbucks that launched a global coffee empire five decades ago, employees unanimous...

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Yesterday I explained   why your company needs a code of conduct separate from or adjunct to your already-existing anti-harassment policy. ...

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Meet Brienne Allan , a brewer at Notch Brewing in Salem, Mass. In May 2021 she asked a simple question in an Instagram Story — "What se...

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I woke up Saturday morning to a tweet asking me for my take on this job posting . I'm going to say this one time, really loudly, for th...

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Over the years I've shared a lot of videos of my daughter performing. At the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At Ohio Bike Week. At the Bes...

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No matter how many times you read our federal workplace anti-discrimination laws, you won't find the word "caregiver" among th...

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Trillium Asset Management, which holds $48 million of Starbucks stock, is leading the charge on behalf of a billion-dollar-plus group of inv...

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After a workplace discussion between employees about employees had been discussing concerns about a superior's management style, an empl...

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I thought I had seen all variety and manner of worst employer. Then Suzanne Lucas sent me this story . Boss who gave employees energy drin...

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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of guesting on DriveThruHR , one of the oldest and (in my opinion) best HR radio shows/podcasts. We dis...

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A federal judge has ordered American Made Bags to pay $189,756 to a group of 48 employees, half as unpaid wages and half as liquidated dama...

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"Iraene" asks the following question on the Antiwork subreddit . I was told to round down or round up my time. So if I start work...

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It's been nearly five years since I asked this question : "Is your non-compete agreement killing a fly with a sledgehammer?" N...

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It was a simple  question posed in the Craft Beef Professionals Facebook group : "Conversations on fair compensation are extremely imp...

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Have you heard about Pravda Brewery , in Lviv, Ukraine. It has stopped producing craft beer and instead is making Molotov cocktails for the ...

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Vaccine mandates are a crime against humanity. If you are not speaking out against them, you are a conspirator. Those are the words Josh St...

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Nearly two years ago, I re-branded the Ohio Employer Law Blog as the Coronavirus Law Blog . It was a bit of marketing combined with the rea...

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To cases recently settled by the EEOC illustrate the point that stereotypes of protected-class employees are a quick path an expensive lesso...

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