By GJ Stillson MacDonnell The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether severance payments made to employees who are terminated are subject to … Read more
Bill Would Make Pennsylvania the Next Right-to-Work State
By Eric B. Meyer Before I get into the this new bill, let’s clear up a popular misconception: free right-to-work means that an employee can be fired … Read more
Do American Idol Background Checks Discriminate Against Minorities?
File this one away under the category of, “You Can’t Make this S%#* Up.” The EEOC has cleared the path for 10 former contestants of the show American … Read more
Who Should Sit in When You Have to Do a Termination?
By Howard Mavity Should HR sit in on a termination? A senior human resources professional recently posed this good question on a LinkedIn forum. As with … Read more
Worker Asks Court to Stop Company From Making Her Work Saturdays
By Eric B. Meyer Sounds like someone’s taken a page out of the Lionel Hutz playbook. Patrice Williams is a Seventh-Day Adventist. Seventh-Day … Read more
In a Job Transfer, Must You Always Accommodate Disabled Employees?
By Eric. B. Meyer Last Friday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the National Employment Lawyers Association – New Jersey Annual Conference. I must … Read more
Workplace and HR Wisdom From the Encyclopedia Britannica
By Howard Mavity The New York Times and other publications are running articles pondering the end of the written version of the Encyclopedia Britannica and … Read more
Lawsuit Accuses LinkedIn of Hacking Users and Spamming Their Contacts
In a blog post Saturday, LinkedIn denied charges in a federal lawsuit that it hacked into users’ email accounts collecting addresses of their … Read more
Judge Finds That Hospital’s Unilateral Change of Dress Code Violates NLRA
By Meyling Ly An administrative law judge recently ruled that a New Jersey hospital violated the National Labor Relations Act by failing to respond to the … Read more
Even Lady Gaga Doesn’t Understand When You Have to Pay Overtime
By Eric B Meyer We’re talking a lot of money honey. (Yes, I know. I couldn’t even make it one line without a stupid Gaga pun.) It may not be so … Read more