I can’t bring myself to say something quippy or clever about this …Tyson Foods ordered employees to report for work while supervisors privately wagered money on the number of workers who would be sickened by the deadly [COVID-19] virus Sworn statements in a wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections in a Waterloo pork processingContinue reading Bet The Company
With all of the uncertainty over re-opening businesses, you might be tempted to ask your employees and customers to sign a COVID-19 waiver before you let them return inside your buildings. Don’t do it. Proving someone did or didn’t contract the novel coronavirus from any particular location or person is extremely difficult. But what isn’tContinue reading Waive(r)ing a Red Flag
Besides it being immensely bad for public relations, attempting to offset your company’s expenses by docking your employees’ wages when their coronavirus stimulus checks arrive is a violation of Michigan’s wage & hours laws.
All companies employing 500 (or fewer) employees must post this poster by April 1st. If you have employees working from home, you should send a copy of the PDF of the poster to those employees. Send the poster as a PDF attachment with the email set for “request a delivery receipt” and “request a readContinue reading Required US-DOL Poster for Coronavirus Paid Sick and Family Leave
Legal pot and the vagaries of navigating how to discipline ‘working high’ is going to cause many hands to wring throughout 2020. Despite Michigan having decriminalized the recreational use of marijuana, marihuana remains a schedule one substance under federal law. So, yes, you can still test for narcotics and can deny employment to prospective employeesContinue reading Dude, Let’s Talk About Pot
USCIS is purging all E-Verify records that are more than 10 years old. E‑Verify employers have until Dec. 31, 2019, to download your case information from the Historic Records Report for all of your E-Verify cases that were created on or before Dec. 31, 2009. Why should you care? Because the government can still auditContinue reading Download Your E-Verify Records Before They’re Gone
As Yoga Berra said it’s like deja vu all over again Back in mid-2016, the US Dept of Labor under President Obama proposed that workers making less than about $50k/yr should get overtime. Those proposed rules were then put on hold by a federal judge in Texas back in January 2017. President Trump’s DOL has now proposedContinue reading Overtime Redux, Redone Yet Again
If your company has a sudden (and very public) epiphany that letting employees expense meals from strip clubs is a bad idea, you’ve already lost. Likewise, if you think that the women at your company should be invited to events based upon their perceived physical attractiveness, you’ve already lost, too. https://deadspin.com/report-under-armour-ends-longstanding-practice-of-ex-1830238082
Fortenberry v. Gemstone FoodsIf one of your employee suffers an “adverse” outcome, don’t be surprised after the fact by a supervisor who struggles to “yeah, but…” for a valid reason. In Fortenberry v. Gemstone Foods, you’ll find a road map for how not to manage an otherwise salaried workforce. The production managers, maintenance managers andContinue reading Land Shark … I Mean, Candygram!
Back three years ago, I warned how you could accidentally have the National Labor Relations Board come a’knockin’ on your door even if your workplace is not unionized. Now that Obama is gone and Trump is in, perhaps you were thinking that this is no longer a concern. If you were thinking that, you’d beContinue reading Yes, Even the Trump NLRB…
