The Employer Handbook

• newI’ll send Tommy back there to hit you in the head with a tack hammer if you get this HR compliance question wrong.
  Image by Michel Oeler from Pixabay We’re going to quiz you today on workplace religious accommodations. (If you fail, instead of sending Tommy Boy, I’ll call the HR police to your office to tear up your SHRM-CP certification into little, tiny pie…
  - 4 hours ago, 17 Oct 19, 10:30am -
• newWhat happens when an employee who is suing you dies mid-suit? Is the case over?
  wallyg [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsNot exactly. For example, here is a situation in which a woman sued her former employer for violating the Family and Medical Leave Act. After the plaintiff initiated the action in federal court, she died. Did…
  - 1 day ago, 16 Oct 19, 10:30am -
• newNo more no-rehire provisions in your settlement agreements. What do you think?
  By The people from the Tango! project – The Tango! Desktop Project, Public Domain, Link Last night, I read with interest — lawyers always read with interest, that’s why we get to charge the big bucks — about a new employment law that will tak…
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Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• Supercharge and Protect your Podcast Feeds
  Announcing Procaster by FeedBlitz Built for professional podcasters, Procaster extends FeedBlitz’s established RSS feed service, enabling power publishers to: ● Keep thousands of episodes live with extra RSS feed capacity● Securely deliver prem…
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• How to Take Your RSS to Email from Meh to Yeah!
  RSS to Email is a form of email automation that uses a feature almost every website has, though for some it’s a hidden feature: the RSS Feed. Utilizing the RSS Feed, you can send automatic emails to notify your subscribers of changes to your site,…
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• Getting Started with A/B Testing Your Emails
  A big part of email marketing – of all marketing – is finding out what works best for your brand and audience. For those just starting on our email platform or those who are looking to change up how they make their emails, it can be stressful to…
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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…
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• 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…
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Connecticut Employment Law Blog

• newEmployment Law Checklist Project: Thou Shall Not Prohibit Employees From Talking About Their Salary
  At our Shipman & Goodwin Labor & Employment Law seminar last week, one of the hot topics that got attendees talking was about minimum wage & overtime rules — both of which are in the midst of change. But my fellow partners brought up another law in…
  - 1 day ago, 16 Oct 19, 11:56am -
• newPaid FMLA – The Many Questions That Lie Ahead
  On Friday, I presented a program on “Paid FMLA: Does It Leave You Confused?” at my firm’s semi-annual Labor & Employment Law Seminar, along with my Shipman & Goodwin colleague Chris Neary. Suffice to say that while the pun was well received, we…
  - 2 days ago, 15 Oct 19, 1:20pm -
• Employment Law Checklist Project: No More Than Six Days of Work in a Week But….
  How many days in a row can an employee work? That’s the question we’ll tackle in this installment of the Employment Law Checklist Project. #emplawchecklist It’s actually a question I first asked right before Yom Kippur twelve years ago so it se…
  - 7 days ago, 10 Oct 19, 11:23am -

FMLA Insights

• Are the DOL’s Proposed New FMLA Forms Just Another Version of Hamburger Helper?
  Contrary to popular opinion, the biggest news lately out of the U.S. Department of Labor is not the fact that the agency just this week announced a final rule that would make over one million American workers newly eligible for overtime pay. Oh, no w…
  - 20 days ago, 27 Sep 19, 11:38am -
• DOL Doubles-Down: Employees Cannot Decline FMLA Leave, Even if a Collective Bargaining Agreement States Otherwise
  Earlier this year, the Department of Labor made clear in an opinion letter that neither an employee nor an employer may decline FMLA leave where an eligible employee is absent for an FMLA-qualifying reason.  As the DOL noted in this March 2019 opi…
  - 34 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 2:13pm -
• DOL Declares That Parent Attendance at School IEP Meetings Are Covered by the FMLA
  If I gave you a million tries, you’d never guess that the next Department of Labor FMLA opinion letter would answer the question [wait for it . . .]: Is an employee’s attendance at a child’s IEP meeting covered by the FMLA? The Answer? Yes. Mo…
  - 69 days ago, 9 Aug 19, 11:57am -

Labor Relations Today

• Are the DOL’s Proposed New FMLA Forms Just Another Version of Hamburger Helper?
  Contrary to popular opinion, the biggest news lately out of the U.S. Department of Labor is not the fact that the agency just this week announced a final rule that would make over one million American workers newly eligible for overtime pay. Oh, no w…
  - 20 days ago, 27 Sep 19, 11:38am -
• DOL Doubles-Down: Employees Cannot Decline FMLA Leave, Even if a Collective Bargaining Agreement States Otherwise
  Earlier this year, the Department of Labor made clear in an opinion letter that neither an employee nor an employer may decline FMLA leave where an eligible employee is absent for an FMLA-qualifying reason.  As the DOL noted in this March 2019 opi…
  - 34 days ago, 13 Sep 19, 2:13pm -
• DOL Declares That Parent Attendance at School IEP Meetings Are Covered by the FMLA
  If I gave you a million tries, you’d never guess that the next Department of Labor FMLA opinion letter would answer the question [wait for it . . .]: Is an employee’s attendance at a child’s IEP meeting covered by the FMLA? The Answer? Yes. Mo…
  - 69 days ago, 9 Aug 19, 11:57am -

Employment and Labor Insider

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Lawffice Space

• Teacher sues school after getting fired for using wrong gender pronouns
  Fascinating case out of Virginia - from WaPo, A Virginia teacher was fired for refusing to use a trans student’s pronouns. Now, he’s suing his school district - and, props to WaPo for including a copy of the Complaint.From the story:Citing his r…
  - 3 days ago, 14 Oct 19, 12:40pm -
• New whitepaper: New Department of Labor overtime regulations are here, meanwhile Pennsylvania’s proposed regulations loom
  Straight from the department of shameless self-promotion, my new whitepaper: New Department of Labor overtime regulations are here, meanwhile Pennsylvania’s proposed regulations loom. Enjoy!
  - 6 days ago, 11 Oct 19, 11:49am -
• Today is the day! SCOTUS args on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination
  SCOTUS is back for a new season, and oral arguments kicked off yesterday. We've got a great double feature lined up for today:Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia (SCOTUSblog page) and Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda (SCOTUSblog page):Whether discri…
  - 9 days ago, 8 Oct 19, 12:19pm -