By Brian Thomas and Anthony Germany Jr.
Corporate trainer Dana Brownlee held a seminar a few years ago, where a manager in her late 50s strongly criticized several young employees on her team. She complained that Millennials are lazy and never return her phone calls. They’d rather respond by text or email. The manager was furious. She remarked ...
In 2012, actress Quvenzhané Wallis made history as the youngest actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was just five years old when she appeared in the highly acclaimed film Beast of the Southern Wild. She also made history for her response to a reporter’s question on the Oscars red carpet. Quvenzhané had starred as the title character ...
Have you ever left the house only to later discover that your socks don’t match? I have!
While that kind of mismatch may be irritating, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) recent return to a practice of sending “no match” letters to employers may prove even more troublesome.
The SSA has recently brought back a practice of sending ...
While many of us were distracted with GoT (for those of you that somehow don’t know what that means, it stands for Game of Thrones) and preparing for Avengers: Endgame (including myself), Uncle Snoop Dogg flew in and left a cloud of Mary Jane over New York when he left. Though not involved with the enactment of a recent bill in New York City, it seems like ...
Last Monday, the United States Supreme Court accepted for review appeals of three cases that involve similar questions about whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBT works from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Title VII is the federal law that bans discrimination in the workplace ...
I know you all have been waiting on pins and needles. No? Just me? Well, nonetheless the day has finally come. No I’m not talking about the apocalypse or the end of the world, though what I’m about to say may seem like it for some employers. I’m talking about the EEOC’s announcement regarding the current EEO-1 reporting period.
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It should be no surprise by now that a certain circuit (I’m looking at you Ninth Circuit) makes its own rules. So much so, the Supreme Court recently had to inform them of the shocking truth that dead judges can’t write opinions. If you are seeing the quote “…federal judges are appointed for life, not for eternity” around a lot lately ...
Well…we finally have some indication from the DOL on how it intends to update Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) regulations covering overtime exemptions for employees who fit into the “white collar” exemptions for Executive, Administrative and Professional employees. The overtime threshold, currently at $23,660/year or ...
Julie R. Pugh & Lee P. Geiger
Yesterday, March 4, 2019, a federal D.C. Circuit judge ordered the EEOC’s pay data collection initiative to be reinstated. As a refresher, generally all private employers with more than 100 employees and all federal contractors (with 50 or more employees and a contract with the federal government worth more than ...