For HR professionals and employment lawyers, the basics of FMLA and ADA is an oft-covered topic in law firm webinars.
But I’ve heard from plenty of people that they’re good with the basics; it’s the tricky issues that give them headaches.
With the acknowledgement that one person’s difficult question may be another person’s easy one
Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate how things have changed since the pandemic hit and the challenges we face going forward.
I was thinking about all those little things over the weekend when I put pocket change in my little “change jar” that I keep in my bedroom.
You see, prior to the pandemic, at the
A few years back, I started kicking around the idea of changing up the blog a bit. As you might imagine, running a blog isn’t all unicorns and rainbows. There’s always something to tinker with and work on and a blog always feels like an incomplete project.
In fact, in 2019, I was struggling with
As post-vaccination life kicks in, the complications for employers continue to mount. No doubt life was a lot harder on lockdown, but some individual decisions for employers were easy — just work from home.
But over the last few weeks, judging from the calls I’m fielding from employers of all sizes, there’s a desire to
Last month, our webinar on vaccines was really very popular. Given the breadth of the topic, we didn’t get a chance to answer all the questions that people had. In addition, since that initial program, Connecticut has modified its vaccination eligibility rules meaning employers that thought that they would have some time to think
As plans for a broader vaccine rollout unfold, the questions and decisions facing employers have multiplied. Beyond the important question of whether employers can mandate vaccines, there is an equally-challenging question: should they?
I’ve been talking with employers a lot about these issues the last few weeks — so much so, that my colleagues and
Can you “Say Anything” in the workplace?
Last month, a Silicon Valley CEO told employees that its mission doesn’t include taking stands on political issues outside the financial realm.
As a result, and as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, “employees were told that internal debates about politics and activism not related to
Amid the craziness that is 2020, employers need to be preparing for the rollout of the paid family and medical leave insurance program. Certain aspects of the program become effective in just a few short months — January 1, 2021.
To that end, my firm is hosting the first of several webinars this month on
With little fanfare, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities updated its website to note that it was giving a blanket 90 day extension of time for all employers to complete the sexual harassment prevention training.
Previously, that deadline was set for October 1, 2020. While it was granting a 90 day extension of time
A few weeks ago, I did an inital post about how the new OSHA guidance on masks only served to complicate efforts for employers to comply with any such rules.
This week, my colleague Alfredo Fernandez (with only a little help from me — byline notwithstanding) posted a more thorough post on the ins and