Employers understand they have an obligation to investigate complaints of workplace misconduct. However, communications made during internal investigations are not totally without risk. Reports of misconduct, such as theft, assault, or abuse of others, can raise the...
Not a word about this week’s goings on. I promise! I was having a hard time coming up with a blog topic this week that didn’t involve the never-ending election of 2020. (I propose that voting in 2024 be done via SurveyMonkey, but that’s a subject for...
As employers are well aware by now, New York enacted a statewide paid sick leave requirements for employers, which took effect on September 30, 2020. We provided an overview of requirements for the new law here. Under the law, New York employers must provide all...
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. Wishful thinking...
Sure seems that way to me. I wonder if the COVID shutdowns have brought out the worst in some employees. I am getting some really strange real-life “situations” lately. (For confidentiality reasons, I can’t say more about those.) But my perception of...
This post at the Evil HR Lady Facebook group caught my attention yesterday: Florida company’s president warns employees their jobs could be in danger if Trump loses election Here are the details: Some employees at a Florida manufacturing company feel they were...
On September 30, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 973, which imposes new pay reporting requirements on certain employers. The law, which takes effect on January 1, 2021, requires employers to file an annual pay data report by March 31 of each...
In the middle of a global pandemic, employers still grapple every day with the age-old question: When an employee exhausts FMLA leave and cannot return to work, does the law require the employer to provide the employee additional leave? Question 1A surely is close...
The California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Law, adopted in 1980, requires that certain “mandated reporters” make formal reports of suspected child abuse to law enforcement authorities. As defined in the law, child abuse includes acts and omissions constituting...
