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Showing posts with label craft beer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft beer. Show all posts
Thursday, May 18, 2023

A few wage and hour thoughts for beer festival season

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As the weather warms up around the country and spring quickly transitions to summer, festival season will begin … including my personal favo...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Tip credits, tip pools, and slutty vegans

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Bar Vegan in an affiliate of Slutty Vegan, a plant-based restaurant chain that finds itself in the crosshairs of a wage-and-hour collective ...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

The craft beer industry has a sexual harassment problem

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According to the EEOC, the industry that generates the most sexual harassment reports (at more than 14% of all such claims filed with the ag...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

A tip on tipped workers: pay them correctly or else

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The Department of Labor has sued the owner of two restaurants claiming that servers were not properly paid overtime.  El Toro Loco Legends ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Do your business’s philosophy, values, and vision match your mission statement

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On this week's episode of The Start A Brewery Podcast , I join hosts Laura Lodge and Candace Moon , along with guests Ren Navarro  (the...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Union avoidance vs. union busting

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"A company that opposes a union organizing and presents both sides of this complex issue is 'union busting.'" This is what...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Update on Creature Comfort Brewing’s union organizing

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Last week I reported that the employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co.  formed their own independent labor union, the Brewing Union of Ge...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

What does Creature Comfort’s union announcement mean for your craft brewery?

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The employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co.  recently held a rally  to announce their intent to form a labor union. They also announced t...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Employers, for the love of God, please stop banning employees from discussing their wages

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I came across the following recent  post on the legaladvice subreddit . Work for a brewery. GM and owner … informed everyone that we needed...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Employers, repeat after me: “Tips belong to employees, not employers.”

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$1,351,253.34. That's the amount a federal judge has ordered  the Empire Diner, its owner, Ihsan Gunaydin, and its manager Engin Gunaydi...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Does craft beer have a labor problem?

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Does craft beer have a labor problem? Julie Rhodes , writing at PorchDrinking , sure thinks so.  She cites low wages and labor conditions as...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Having a disability is NOT an excuse for mistreating others

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I've written before about BrewDog ( here and here ), the multinational Scottish craft brewery accused by hundreds of former employees  o...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Explaining the “Golden Age of Union Organizing”

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Unions aren't just having a moment, they are having their best moment in at least 50 years. What has caused the "perfect ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Breaches of confidentiality during internal investigations chill future reports of workplace misconduct

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"Nothing you share will be attributed to you and your feedback will remain anonymous." That's what an HR consultant advised em...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Employers, your awful stereotypes in job ads aren’t cute or clever, they’re offensive and illegal

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"Meet H&N's newest assistant brewer," the Instagram post began. How nice, a brewery advertising its female-friendly work e...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

If it feels like labor unions are having their moment, it’s because they absolutely are

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Union representation petitions are surging.  According to the National Labor Relations Board , they have increased a whopping 57% over the p...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Series of promotions dooms gay brewery employee’s sex discrimination claim

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Midland Brewing Company hired Ryan Boshaw to work as a server. Over the span of nine months, it promoted him three times, to an hourly manag...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Restaurant learns the hard way what an illegal tip pool looks like

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Hard Eight BBQ says it misunderstood its obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act by paying managers a share of tips earned by servers...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Your office might be open, but the bar should remain closed

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According to The Wall Street Journal , some businesses are using alcohol to entice their employees to return to the office. As businesses wo...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Protected concerted activity is an opportunity to engage with your employees, not to retaliate against them

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"Due to the 6.8% inflation rate, all US workers are entitled to at least a 6.8% pay adjustment. We have received reports of some ABUSIV...