The Employer Handbook

• newWhile OSHA develops a vaccine mandate, the EEOC is now filing COVID-related lawsuits against employers.
  E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!! (And how ’bout ‘dem Cowboys!) The U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said that when an employer permits employees to telework to slow or stop the spread of COVID-19, the employer has not committed itself to auto…
  - 20 hours ago, 14 Sep 21, 10:30am -
• newMore on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: Lawsuits, the five best things I read, and a Friday Zoom at Noon EDT
  Image Credit: Photofunia.com I won’t bury the lede based on the number of questions and comments I received following Friday’s post. I’ve assembled a panel of five employment attorneys to address everything relating to President Biden’s new v…
  - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 21, 10:30am -
• Biden to companies with 100+ employees: Mandate vaccines, or test weekly, or else!!!
  ScreenCap from WhiteHouse.gov Yesterday, President Biden announced that all businesses with 100+ employees will soon have to ensure that their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly. I’ve got details below and a Zoom planned for Friday, September…
  - 5 days ago, 10 Sep 21, 10:30am -

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• 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.      
  - 14 Apr 21, 10:03pm -
• 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 -
• New: Schedule Your Emails Multiple Days a Week or Month
  More hassle-free set it and forget it email campaigns at your fingertips.The beauty of automated RSS-to-email campaigns is the set it and forget it factor, knowing your email campaigns will be sent as scheduled with your new content – that was…
  - 12 Mar 21, 2:45pm -

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…
  - 9 Dec 15, 7:44pm -
• 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

• newThree Questions with … Mediator Robert Harris
  One of the longest recurring features here has been a Q&A with various professionals that add some perspectives on what is going on in a specific area. Today, I have the fortune of publishing a Q&A with Robert Harris, who serves as Senior Vice Pres…
  - 7 hours ago, 14 Sep 21, 11:51pm -
• newA Perspective: 18 Months Into Pandemic, Still Chasing Normalcy
  18 months. Is that a long time? Short? Everyone has marked this pandemic in their own time, but over the last few days, I realized that I hit the 18 month mark since I left work one morning not knowing when I would really be back. For me, it’s be…
  - 18 hours ago, 14 Sep 21, 12:28pm -
• newNew Rules Coming for Employers but Don’t Call Everything a Mandate
  With the Delta variant continuing to surge throughout the country, employers have begun to seriously consider mandatory vaccination policies.  As I mentioned before, on September 9th, we presented a webinar on the topic. But shortly after our webi…
  - 2 days ago, 13 Sep 21, 1:34pm -

FMLA Insights

• When an Employee Takes FMLA Leave During a Holiday Week, How Much FMLA Leave is Actually Taken?
  This one is to get the blood flowing for you hard-core FMLA nerds out there, cause it’s quickly going to get in the leave of absence weeds. With the Labor Day holiday approaching, let’s discuss how an employer should calculate FMLA leave during a…
  - 14 days ago, 1 Sep 21, 6:25am -
• Can an Employer Discipline an Employee for Excessive FMLA-Related Absences Before Requesting Recertification? The Simple Answer is NO.
  Matt was a correction officer for the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders, which as an aside, sounds like something straight out of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Before I digress further, Matt served as one of the caretakers for his…
  - 34 days ago, 12 Aug 21, 6:43am -
• When Your Employee Calls off Sick with “Flare-Ups,” Is This Sufficient Notice of the Need for FMLA Leave?
  Ed was an autoworker who dealt with apparent bouts of depression for which he sought intermittent FMLA leave. But he also had fistfuls of unexcused absences, so much so that he stood on the precipice of termination — one attendance point away, to b…
  - 48 days ago, 29 Jul 21, 1:59pm -

Labor Relations Today

• When an Employee Takes FMLA Leave During a Holiday Week, How Much FMLA Leave is Actually Taken?
  This one is to get the blood flowing for you hard-core FMLA nerds out there, cause it’s quickly going to get in the leave of absence weeds. With the Labor Day holiday approaching, let’s discuss how an employer should calculate FMLA leave during a…
  - 14 days ago, 1 Sep 21, 6:25am -
• Can an Employer Discipline an Employee for Excessive FMLA-Related Absences Before Requesting Recertification? The Simple Answer is NO.
  Matt was a correction officer for the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders, which as an aside, sounds like something straight out of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Before I digress further, Matt served as one of the caretakers for his…
  - 34 days ago, 12 Aug 21, 6:43am -
• When Your Employee Calls off Sick with “Flare-Ups,” Is This Sufficient Notice of the Need for FMLA Leave?
  Ed was an autoworker who dealt with apparent bouts of depression for which he sought intermittent FMLA leave. But he also had fistfuls of unexcused absences, so much so that he stood on the precipice of termination — one attendance point away, to b…
  - 48 days ago, 29 Jul 21, 1:59pm -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• Biden issues employer vaccine mandates - can he do that?
  Federal vaccine mandates incoming! The AP reports this as:President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans — private-sector employees as well as health care workers and federal c…
  - 5 days ago, 10 Sep 21, 1:02pm -
• Third Circuit defines "personal staff exception" to FLSA
  Post 2 (of 2) on Clews v. Cnty. of Schuykill. Last time, I explained that the County had not waived its affirmative defense that the employees claiming unpaid overtime fell under the "personal staff exception" to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).…
  - 13 days ago, 2 Sep 21, 11:30am -
• Third Circuit on waiver of affirmative defenses in wage and hour claims
  In Clews v. Cnty. of Schuykill, three former deputy coroners filed claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), seeking overtime pay and alleging retaliation (firing) for complaining about not getting overtime pay. The employer argued that the e…
  - 15 days ago, 31 Aug 21, 1:04pm -