Women are prohibited from showing their bare arms.Women are required to cover their dress with a second layer.
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Dress codes and gender biases
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired
This is how it started.
This is how it's ended (for now).
In the intervening 48 hours, Elon Musk reportedly fired dozens of Twitter employees who criticized him publicly on Twitter and privately in the company's Slack channel. The first to go was Eric Frohnhoefer, a Twitter engineer who publicly challenged Musk's knowledge of how the app's backend actually works. Other employees, like this one, took to Mastodon to challenge Musk's termination of Frohnhoefer in obscenity laced rants.For more information, contact Jon at (440) 695-8044 or JHyman@Wickenslaw.com.
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Monday, May 9, 2022
The NLRB is coming for your handbook (again)
- Corrective action rules
- A dress code
- A prohibition on cell phone use while working
- A social media policy
- Confidentiality rules
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
The nuts and bolts of your company code of conduct
Yesterday I explained why your company needs a code of conduct separate from or adjunct to your already-existing anti-harassment policy.
Today, I'm back to explain what it should contain, to whom it should apply, how violations are addressed, and how it should be disseminated.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Does your craft brewery or other company have a code of conduct?
Meet Brienne Allan, a brewer at Notch Brewing in Salem, Mass. In May 2021 she asked a simple question in an Instagram Story— "What sexist comments have you experienced?"
What followed were hundreds upon hundreds of stories of sex-based discrimination, harassment, and other abuse.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Vacation (all I ever wanted) — 7 tips to encourage your employees to use their paid time off
"AITA for turning my work phone off on vacation?" That's the question that someone recently posted on the eponymous subreddit.
I checked my phone voicemail and the unknown number was him saying he "hoped there was a damn good excuse for why I was off the grid" if I wanted to keep my job. He even started out the voicemail with "I'm so sorry you’re in the hospital because that's the only reason I should be needing to hunt you down like this." In slack I had a few dms from coworkers I feel I get along with saying I need to reply ASAP because my absence was impacting them with how mad our boss was.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Tragic workplace emergency safety lessons from a candle factory
Thus far, eight employees have tragically died inside the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory from the tornado that tore through Mayfield, Kentucky, and left the factory a pile of rubble. That number, however, could have been much less.
According to NBC News, as the storm warnings came and tornado sirens blared, as many as 15 employees asked managers for permission to leave so that they could take shelter in their own homes. Instead of granting permission, managers threatened to fire anyone who left their shift early. Now at least eight employees are dead, and many more are injured.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Work-life balance vs. Antiwork
Compare the following.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Employment law lessons from “Ted Lasso” – dating the boss
If you've not yet watched episode 8 (Man City) of the current second season of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso and you don't want to be spoiled, now would be a good time to click the back button on your browser or close your email. Good? Okay. No grumbling; you've been warned.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Coronavirus Update 8-17-2021: Are your work-from-home employees working more one job from home?
This headline in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs.
A small, dedicated group of white-collar workers, in industries from tech to banking to insurance, say they have found a way to double their pay: Work two full-time remote jobs, don’t tell anyone and, for the most part, don’t do too much work, either.
Alone in their home offices, they toggle between two laptops.
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
No, you don’t get to keep your paid leave after your position is eliminated

[A] number of ex-Trump political officials … lost their parental leave when Joe Biden was sworn into office. It's a byproduct of the field they're in: Their boss (the president) may have been the one let go, but his departure has meant that they, too, lose their jobs and benefits. Still, they argue that the Biden administration should have honored their leave by keeping them on payroll until the end of it — a request that … the Biden transition did not grant.
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Friday, January 8, 2021
When you discover that you employ a seditious rebel #TraitorsGettingFired
Elizabeth wasn’t ready for the revolution to be televised😂 pic.twitter.com/LibeNAuE6h
— xy467chr (@xy467chr) January 6, 2021
Why is Jake Angeli walking free? If he can be named in this article, and he was part of the insurrectionist movement yesterday, he committed a crime by invading the Capitol and he should be arrested. https://t.co/5hUbek57nc
— Dr. HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) January 7, 2021
This is Paul Davis. Paul is a lawyer. He’s also associate general counsel & director of human resources at Goosehead Insurance. Today he stormed the capitol building in an attempt to stage a coup against the US government and documented it (!) on Instagram. @followgoosehead pic.twitter.com/eTkoK92ujL
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) January 7, 2021
NEW: A Maryland company has terminated one of its employees after he was apparently captured in a picture during the mob riot in the Capitol yesterday. @wbaltv11 pic.twitter.com/flxRhdmP3P
— Tre Ward (@TreWardWBAL) January 7, 2021
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
My one work rule to rule them all
George Carlin was a genius. He just had a way of breaking down language into its most simple parts. Whether it was The 7 Dirty Words or The 10 Commandments, Carlin was just brilliant with language. For example, he dismantled each of the 10 Commandments into just two:
First:
- Thou shalt always be honest and faithful, especially to the provider of thy nookie.
And second:
- Thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone, unless, of course, they pray to a different invisible man than the one you pray to.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Time to make sure your business has an Election Day plan. #vote

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
PLEASE don’t tell your employees which candidate to vote for

Florida company's president warns employees their jobs could be in danger if Trump loses election
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Monday, February 3, 2020
Poll: how do you handle “Super Bowl Fever”?

- An estimated 17.5 million U.S. employees say they may skip work today.
- Of those employees, 11.1 million say they will likely use preapproved time-off.
- Another 4.7 million plan to call in sick even though they’re really not ill.
- 1.5 million say they will not tell anyone they’re not coming in and just won’t show up.
- 11.1 million employees plan to go to work, but will show up late.
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
“Hairstyle discrimination” laws: a solution in search of a problem
I fully embrace the irony of a local news broadcast holding me out as the expert on hair discrimination. 👨🏻🦲
Irony notwithstanding, here I am on last night’s 6 o’clock news discussing why we don’t need to ban workplace hairstyle discrimination. (Big thank you to WEWS’s Mike Brookbank for reaching out and for the interview.)
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
EEOC settlement provides expensive lesson on including social media in your anti-harassment policies and training
EEOC v. Nabors Corp. Services involves serious allegations of racial harassment, including the following.
Being addressed at work by co-workers with racial slurs such as “nigger”; being exposed at work to offensive, racially derogatory social media images and material circulated by co-workers and managers; being exposed to racist graffiti, including racial slurs and derogatory drawings concerning Black persons at company facilities in and around Pleasanton, Texas; being referred to as members of the “colored crew” by employees and managers; and in some instances, being subjected to intimidation and physical threats by employees because of race, Black.
The company recently resolved this case, agreeing to pay 10 employees a total of $1,225,000 to settle the EEOC’s claims of racial harassment, race discrimination, and retaliation.
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Monday, September 23, 2019
No-fault attendance policies offer no cover when the ADA or FMLA are involved

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
It is an inexcusable sin for an employer NOT to have an anti-discrimination policy
There are some employment policies that you can get away with not having. An anti-discrimination policy is not one of them.
In Hubbell v. FedEx SmartPost (decided yesterday by the 6th Circuit), FedEx learned this lesson the hard way.
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