Employment Law

1. For St Patrick’s Day, Best Sick Note Ever 2.  11th Circuit Rules Sexual Orientation Discrimination Is Not Prohibited The 11th Circuit has jurisdiction over Alabama, Florida and Georgia. [...]

This week’s kinda-sorta must-reads for HR folk. 1. The Gig Economy is the Story of the Day It’s been estimated that as many as 1 in 3 workers in the U.S. and Europe are now part of [...]

Let’s see if I can make Five for Friday a regular thing. In Focus: How to Prepare, Recover as Hurricane Matthew Heads for Florida Some useful disaster prep resources from SHRM. I talked to [...]

We are in the midst of the Uberfication of the workforce. More and more companies are relying on free lancers, contractors and contingent workers. And to be clear, many who fall into those groups [...]

The Vermont Department of Labor has been running a TV ad on the misclassification of employees as contractors. Vermont has a memo of understanding with the U.S. DOL, so could there be federal [...]

Should your managers be eligible for OT?  The First Circuit Court of Appeals says maybe. The case involves two managers working for Dunkin’ Donuts who are arguing that management is not [...]

It seems that artificial intelligence applications are being developed to do things like spot bias based on how we use language. Not blatant sexist or racially discriminatory language. This is [...]

Noah Lang has posted a provocative piece in LinkedIn, “Manifesto for a Modern Worker Class: The On Demand Contractor“.  His premise is that platforms such as Uber and Airbnb have [...]