The Employer Handbook

• newThat time when all the employment lawyers got paid and the litigants got zilch!
  Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Just about the only folks guaranteed to get paid in an employment discrimination case are the lawyers. Employers generally pay the lawyers representing them by the hour. Conversely, employee-rights attor…
  - 5 hours ago, 23 Nov 20, 11:30am -
• Lawsuit: Company managers wagered on how many employees will get coronavirus
  Image Credit: Photofunia.com Imagine if one of your plant managers organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19. That’s one of the scandalous allegat…
  - 3 days ago, 20 Nov 20, 12:50pm -
• Heads up, PA employers! The Commonwealth just strengthened its COVID-19 mask and testing rules 😷👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
  Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pennsylvania businesses with employees who report to the office will need to update their workplace policies in light of some new rules effective this week. On Tuesday, Dr. Rache…
  - 4 days ago, 19 Nov 20, 11:30am -

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• NBC News takes the unprecedented step to release its internal Matt Lauer harassment report
  Image by Max Goldberg via Wiki CommonsYesterday morning, NBC News released the complete report into its months long investigation of Matt Lauer.I was astounded by NBC’s transparency. It is extraordinarily rare for a private company…
  - 10 May 18, 11:21am -
• Sympathetic does not always equal protected under the ADA
  Photo by Pexels on PixabayToday’s opinion is a lesson straight out of the school of hard knocks. No matter how sympathetic the plaintiff or how harrowing his plights, the law is the law and sometimes it’s just not on his side.When…
  - 9 May 18, 11:34am -
• Should employers still test for marijuana?
  Photo by Michael Fischer from PexelsOhio’s medical marijuana program is set to be fully operational by September 2018. Ohio will join 28 other states, and the District of Columbia, in which doctors can legally prescribe marijuana to treat c…
  - 8 May 18, 11:49am -

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

• Tired and Thankful, the “Groundhog Day” Life of an Employment Law Attorney
  I don’t often let you peek behind the curtain of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog. After all, the focus (for 13+ years!) has always been on “new and noteworthy developments” in employment law for Connecticut businesses. But as we approach Th…
  - 4 days ago, 19 Nov 20, 1:37pm -
• Private Plans for Connecticut’s Paid Family Medical Leave
  The timing for employers (which is basically any private business) to register with the state for the new Paid Family Medical Leave program couldn’t be worse or better, depending on your perspective.  It started November 1, 2020 and continues to r…
  - 7 days ago, 17 Nov 20, 1:20am -
• COVID Alert CT — the New Digital Contact Tracing system — is Live in Connecticut
  Early on in this pandemic, I co-authored a post with ADNET Technologies’ Christopher Luise regarding the possibility of digital contact tracing for COVID-19.  I recapped it in a post here as well.  That possibility is now a reality in Connecticut…
  - 10 days ago, 13 Nov 20, 1:38pm -

FMLA Insights

• Can Employers Require that Employees Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine Before Returning to Work?
  First came Pfizer. Then Moderna. The COVID-19 vaccine is coming. By the time you read this article, even more COVID-19 vaccines may very well be in the mix. But is a COVID-19 vaccine the antidote that brings much needed relief to workplaces across Am…
  - 3 days ago, 20 Nov 20, 7:02am -
• Free Webinar: Navigating Difficult FMLA and ADA Issues in the Middle of a Pandemic
  Nothing ushers in the holidays like a COVID-related FMLA webinar. Join me for my annual FMLA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge! When: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 (12:00 – 1:30 p.m. central time) Online registration: Click here…
  - 11 days ago, 12 Nov 20, 6:17am -
• Will Congress Extend FFCRA Paid Sick and Paid FMLA Leave into 2021?
  As we enter the home stretch of 2020 [thank God!], clients are increasingly asking me: Will FFCRA be extended into 2021? When Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) in March, it set the Act to expire on December 31, 2020.…
  - 25 days ago, 29 Oct 20, 6:16am -

Labor Relations Today

• Can Employers Require that Employees Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine Before Returning to Work?
  First came Pfizer. Then Moderna. The COVID-19 vaccine is coming. By the time you read this article, even more COVID-19 vaccines may very well be in the mix. But is a COVID-19 vaccine the antidote that brings much needed relief to workplaces across Am…
  - 3 days ago, 20 Nov 20, 7:02am -
• Free Webinar: Navigating Difficult FMLA and ADA Issues in the Middle of a Pandemic
  Nothing ushers in the holidays like a COVID-related FMLA webinar. Join me for my annual FMLA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge! When: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 (12:00 – 1:30 p.m. central time) Online registration: Click here…
  - 11 days ago, 12 Nov 20, 6:17am -
• Will Congress Extend FFCRA Paid Sick and Paid FMLA Leave into 2021?
  As we enter the home stretch of 2020 [thank God!], clients are increasingly asking me: Will FFCRA be extended into 2021? When Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) in March, it set the Act to expire on December 31, 2020.…
  - 25 days ago, 29 Oct 20, 6:16am -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• Correction: Travelers must quarantine for 14 days
  Important correction: People travelling to (or returning to) Pennsylvania must either test negative for COVID-19 or quarantine for 14 days. I inadvertently typed "72 hours" in Wednesday's post (corrected version with update clearly marked here). My…
  - 5 days ago, 19 Nov 20, 1:08am -
• New orders from Gov. Wolf / Dr. Levine
  Sorry for the brief hiatus, folks. I think I was suffering from a little election fatigue. I expect to be back in the flow after Thanksgiving. For now, "enjoy" these two new orders from Governor Wolf and Dr. Levine that may impact your workplace:Trav…
  - 5 days ago, 19 Nov 20, 1:03am -
• Grocery store's mask requirements survive ADA legal challenge
  An interesting decision from the Western District of Pennsylvania, in Pletcher v. Giant Eagle. One of the plaintiff's, Josiah Kostek, sought a preliminary injunction against Giant Eagle grocery store claiming that its mask requirements violated the A…
  - 26 days ago, 28 Oct 20, 1:26pm -