The Employer Handbook

• newLet’s rank the top Thanksgiving foods for 2021. (Can anything take down stuffing?!?)
  Dorevabelfiore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons For just the next few days, who gives a you-know-what about vaccine mandates and booster shots? It’s that time of year when I ask the best blog readers in the world to rank the best Thanksgiving f…
  - 5 hours ago, 24 Nov 21, 11:50am -
• newEric, we’re just gonna wait and see what happens with the OSHA vax-or-test mandate
  Survey by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project Thank you to those of you who participated in yesterday’s OSHA vax-or-test survey. ICYMI, I asked two questions of businesses with more than 99 employees that are neither federal contractors nor subject…
  - 1 day ago, 23 Nov 21, 11:30am -
• newDoes your private business have more than 99 employees? Take this quick vax-or-test poll.
  Image Credit: Survey by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project Over the weekend, a colleague asked a few of us how (if?) most private employers with more than 99 employees are prepping their workplaces for the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate in light of it…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Nov 21, 11:30am -

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• (Pumpkin) Spice Up Your Emails with Fall and Halloween-themed Templates
  Save time on design and get a jumpstart in spicing up your emails with a free Fall or Halloween-themed email template!A simple and easy way to bring the holidays into your email marketing – without having to start a design from scratch – these…
  - 58 days ago, 27 Sep 21, 2:33pm -
• It’s Official: Google is Ending FeedBurner Email. Here are Your Next Steps.
  Google has announced that Feedburner's email services will end in July 2021. Here's a guide for you to help you plan your move to a new email service as painlessly as possible.      
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• 3 Ways to Earn (Even More) Money with Your Emails
  Learn how you can turn your emails into revenue streams.Growing an audience is one of the most exciting and engaging things you can do online. Through a variety of many different outlets, including email, you’re able to offer value to like-mind…
  - 16 Mar 21, 1:30pm -

The Employer's Lawyer

• When Rhetoric Comes to Town
  By now, if you haven’t heard about Donald Trump’s statements on Muslims and his plan to prevent Muslims from entering the country, as well as the vehement support he is receiving from an astonishing number of people, you may be living under a roc…
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• Beware the FMLA Equitable Estoppel Claim
  Imagine that your company has 40 employees, one of whom is subject to hospitalization for a medical condition and requires surgery. He is out of work for several weeks and in his absence, the company realizes that it gets along fine without him. As a…
  - 10 Nov 15, 2:23pm -
• Don’t Bet on the Jury Verdict
  As some of those who follow me on Twitter know, I had jury duty in September. Like most people, it wasn’t something I was looking forward to (and I even tried to get out of it on the basis that no one would pick a lawyer for a jury). Well, it turn…
  - 5 Nov 15, 2:55pm -

Connecticut Employment Law Blog

• newA Thanksgiving Post – Looking Back and Looking Ahead
  Thanksgiving evokes different emotions in people. For some, it’s their favorite holiday. A time to get together with friends and family and celebrate all that life has to offer. For others, it’s not as sweet. It can serve as a bitter reminder o…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Nov 21, 2:18pm -
• Court Stays OSHA ETS, But We Know All Too Well It’s Not the Last Word
  
  - 10 days ago, 14 Nov 21, 11:11pm -
• Musings on the (Now Stayed) New OSHA Federal Vaccination or Test Rule
  Being sick over the last week brought me a lot of unexpected “gifts”.  Sure, there were the forced afternoon naps (oh, who’s kidding, even a morning nap too) .  The watching of “The Price is Right” at least once (or was it twice?). The…
  - 17 days ago, 7 Nov 21, 5:59pm -

FMLA Insights

• Free Webinar: Managing Remote Work Requests During (and After) the Pandemic
  Join me for my annual FMLA/ADA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge! When: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time) Online registration: Click here Work-from-home requests were on the increase even before the p…
  - 14 days ago, 10 Nov 21, 6:30am -
• Under the ETS, What Paid Leave Must an Employer Provide an Employee to Obtain a COVID-19 Vaccine or Test?
  It’s arrived. Finally. For those of us who have poured over the 490 glorious pages of OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers across America to get their employees vaccinated, our collective heads are spinning this morning.…
  - 19 days ago, 5 Nov 21, 6:36am -
• Has Federal Paid Leave Been Resurrected from the Dead? Pelosi-backed Legislation Needs a Lifeline to Survive
  The ink had not even dried on my blog post last week (calling federal paid leave a possibility) when a federal paid leave bill pending in the House was declared dead. Fast forward to yesterday, when news outlets began reporting that federal paid leav…
  - 20 days ago, 4 Nov 21, 6:21am -

Labor Relations Today

• Free Webinar: Managing Remote Work Requests During (and After) the Pandemic
  Join me for my annual FMLA/ADA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge! When: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time) Online registration: Click here Work-from-home requests were on the increase even before the p…
  - 14 days ago, 10 Nov 21, 6:30am -
• Under the ETS, What Paid Leave Must an Employer Provide an Employee to Obtain a COVID-19 Vaccine or Test?
  It’s arrived. Finally. For those of us who have poured over the 490 glorious pages of OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers across America to get their employees vaccinated, our collective heads are spinning this morning.…
  - 19 days ago, 5 Nov 21, 6:36am -
• Has Federal Paid Leave Been Resurrected from the Dead? Pelosi-backed Legislation Needs a Lifeline to Survive
  The ink had not even dried on my blog post last week (calling federal paid leave a possibility) when a federal paid leave bill pending in the House was declared dead. Fast forward to yesterday, when news outlets began reporting that federal paid leav…
  - 20 days ago, 4 Nov 21, 6:21am -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• EEOC updates COVID-19 guidance to address retaliation
  The EEOC just keeps updating its What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws guidance. Check out the latest addition, Section M. Retaliation and Interference. Not official use.Honestly, this just look…
  - 5 days ago, 19 Nov 21, 3:12pm -
• OSHA vaccine mandate challenges incoming!
  Not official use.A number of legal actions have already been filed trying to strike down OSHA's vaccine mandate. The first response came from the Fifth Circuit, which issued an emergency stay citing the petitioners' belief that there are "grave statu…
  - 16 days ago, 8 Nov 21, 2:06pm -
• New OSHA Vaccine Mandate is Here!
   Yesterday, OSHA finally issued its COVID-19 Vaccine and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). As a reminder, the ETS also serves as a notice of proposed rulemaking to eventually become a final rule. I knew you were hungry, so I baked up some…
  - 19 days ago, 5 Nov 21, 12:22pm -