While we digested our Thanksgiving turkey, news broke about a new COVID-19 variant making its way around the world — B.1.1.529, now officially named the Omicron variant.
Here's what we know about Omicron, what we think we know, what we don't yet know, and, perhaps most importantly, what employers should be doing in response.
Thus, today, as I start my Thanksgiving break, I am sharing what I am thankful for this year.
A new manager takes away a pet project from a long-term 60-year-old employee, repeatedly asks him when he's "going to retire," calls him "Uncle," and criticizes his "old skills." Those are the basic facts that caused the 6th Circuit to reverse a grant of summary judgment to the employer in Sloat v. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co.
This past Sunday night, John Oliver closed his 2021 season with a long-form exposé on labor unions. More specifically, he focused on the efforts employers take to combat union organizing drives: anti-union messaging and videos, captive-audience speeches, threats of job loss and plant closures, and more pointed retaliation against union organizers and other pro-union employees.
His story, however, left out one key fact — the labor unions are actually winning. And they are winning a lot.