The Employer Handbook

• newThe readers have three follow-up ADA questions about job applications. Let’s answer them.
  Request Leave Coolie Writing Tool Pen Application (https://www.maxpixel.net/Request-Leave-Coolie-Writing-Tool-Pen-Application-1915347) On Wednesday, I blogged, “If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA pro…
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• Yes, you can be fired for cursing about clients in the office bathroom
  MarkBuckawicki [CC0], via Wikimedia CommonsIf I were the boss, I’d fire anyone for talking in a public office restroom. Period. Full stop. But, carrying on and cursing about clients of the company is certainly a terminable offense. Just ask the Nat…
  - 3 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA problems.
  Request Leave Coolie Writing Tool Pen Application (https://www.maxpixel.net/Request-Leave-Coolie-Writing-Tool-Pen-Application-1915347) I remember once I had a colleague asked me to review an addendum to a job application for a client to make sure it…
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Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• 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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• Should You Use Gifs in Your Emails?
  On websites, social media, and even messaging apps, animations are everywhere. Why not have them in your mailings as well? Marketing is all about capturing interest and gifs can be another tool in your arsenal. If a picture says a thousand words, wha…
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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

• newWhen Attendance is Essential, Intermittent Extended Leave is Not Reasonable
  The Connecticut Appellate Court has an interesting case coming out officially early next week about an employer’s obligations to provide leave as a “reasonable accommodation”. You can download Barbabosa v. Board of Education here. In it, the Co…
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• On “1099 Employees” and “Full-Time Freelancers” and Other Oxymorons
  There are certain expressions in the employment law world that don’t make much sense.   Call them: Employment Law Oxymorons. At least for me, hearing an employer ask what they should do about their “1099 Employees” is one of them. Let’s bac…
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• The Dialogue: Listening to Employee-Side Attorneys For Employer Tips About #MeToo
  
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FMLA Insights

• Can an Employee Decline FMLA Leave Even though the Absence is Covered by the FMLA? According to the DOL, the Answer is an Emphatic “NO.”
  Every one of you employs at least one of these employees — you know, the one who: requests medical leave because of, let’s say, his uromysitisis poisoning (clearly, an FMLA-qualifying condition); but wants to use his accrued paid leave instead of…
  - 37 days ago, 15 Mar 19, 12:32pm -
• This is the Day I Look Forward to Every Year: Arrival of the ABA’s Summary of 2018 FMLA Court Decisions
  I can’t imagine anything more exciting than having joined Littler earlier this year.  [Click here to read about that virtual love fest.] But I have found a close second: the arrival of the American Bar Association’s summary of every FMLA case de…
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• I’m Taking my So-Called FMLA Talents to Littler!
  I am bursting at my FMLA seams, and I’ve been dying to share the news with my blog readers. A few weeks ago, six colleagues and I decided to leave our Chicago-based boutique firm and venture toward the labor and employment powerhouse: Littler Mende…
  - 53 days ago, 27 Feb 19, 7:17am -

Labor Relations Today

• Can an Employee Decline FMLA Leave Even though the Absence is Covered by the FMLA? According to the DOL, the Answer is an Emphatic “NO.”
  Every one of you employs at least one of these employees — you know, the one who: requests medical leave because of, let’s say, his uromysitisis poisoning (clearly, an FMLA-qualifying condition); but wants to use his accrued paid leave instead of…
  - 37 days ago, 15 Mar 19, 12:32pm -
• This is the Day I Look Forward to Every Year: Arrival of the ABA’s Summary of 2018 FMLA Court Decisions
  I can’t imagine anything more exciting than having joined Littler earlier this year.  [Click here to read about that virtual love fest.] But I have found a close second: the arrival of the American Bar Association’s summary of every FMLA case de…
  - 45 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 6:10am -
• I’m Taking my So-Called FMLA Talents to Littler!
  I am bursting at my FMLA seams, and I’ve been dying to share the news with my blog readers. A few weeks ago, six colleagues and I decided to leave our Chicago-based boutique firm and venture toward the labor and employment powerhouse: Littler Mende…
  - 53 days ago, 27 Feb 19, 7:17am -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• newPennsylvania appellate court on joint employment
  Ethan WiltEthan Wilt, my fellow McQuaide Blasko attorney, published a new whitepaper: County not a joint employer of probation officer employee where the Probation Office ultimately operated under the final supervision and authority of the President…
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• Does the cost of a sign language interpreter constitute an undue hardship under the ADA?
  First, check out this great article: How Reasonable is That Accommodation? Case Studies Evaluating the Reasonableness of Workplace Accommodations Under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The article provides three "case studies" for reasonable acco…
  - 3 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 1:06pm -
• NLRA limitations on employee handbooks and policies
  Yesterday, I guest-taught labor law (specifically, social media and the NLRA) at Penn State Law. We covered the NLRB's review of employee handbooks and policies. What makes a policy overbroad, and therefore unlawful under the NLRA?Not official use.I'…
  - 4 days ago, 17 Apr 19, 1:03pm -