One of North Texas’ largest employers announced that it will not longer hire or consider for hire any individual who uses any nicotine product (i.e., cigarettes, nicotine gum or patches, chewing tobacco or electronic cigarettes). Baylor Health Care Systems announced its new policy on the careers page of its website stating:
Next week is the deadline for all covered employers (i.e., those subject to Title VII and with 100 or more employees; or first tier or prime federal contractors with 50 or more employees or more than $50,000 in federal contracts) to file their federal EEO-1 surveys. The EEOC has a FAQ page if you are new to or unfamiliar
If you are are regular reader of this blog, you know that by November 14, 2011, most private employers (union and non-union) have to post notice of employees’ federal labor rights to form and join a union. Some of you may have even already posted the NLRB-sanctioned poster.
However, several lawsuits have been filed
I’ve previously written about the new NLRB requirement that most employers post notice of employee’s NLRB rights (post here). The posting requirement is effective November 14, 2011, for both union and non-union employers. Yesterday, the NLRB made available an appropriate posting for download. The NLRB’s site also has answers to some commonly asked
Texas employers have the option of purchasing workers’ compensation insurance or going as a nonsubscriber. Deciding whether to be a nonsubscriber or purchase workers’ compensation insurance requires an idea of what your anticipated workers’ compensation premium will be (usually obtained through your insurance broker) as well as understanding what legal protection a Texas employer gets by becoming
Next week we celebrate Labor Day; the first Monday in September (although my Labor Day celebration starts a little later today). Labor Day is and has been one of my favorite holidays. As a child, we didn’t start school until after Labor Day and it marked the end of summer vacation. Now, my children start school much
In 2010 Congress passed the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. The law requires federal agencies to assess and implement telework (aka telecommuting or work-from-home) arrangments for its workforce to the maximum extent practicable without sacrificing operations of the agency or employee performance. The US Office of Personnel Managment recently published a Guide to Telework in
Walter Olson at Overlawyered started they debate by asking “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law…” He answered age discrimination. I’ll let him defend his selection and you can read his explanation here.
Jon Hyman and Daniel Schwartz weighed in that they would reform the depression-era outdated Fair
The EEOC is reviewing whether the use of arrest and criminal conviction information acts as a hiring barrier and whether employers should be precluded from asking about criminal convictions. The EEOC publicized the meeting in a press release titled Striking a Balance Between Workplace Fairness and Workplace Safety. Particularly troubling about this hearing is the fact that
Imagine this, its Friday and you are sitting in your office as Director of Verizon’s newly created Office of Reasonable Accommodation. An employee, I’ll call him Joe, walks into your office. Joe tells you he’s recently converted to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (i.e., he is now a Pastafarian); that Friday’s
