Earlier this week, the House passed an extension of the FFCRA as part of its $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bill. (I’ll cover its details in a future post, but if you’re curious now, head over to Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights.)
One of the new measures in this proposed extension is the inclusion of leave taken by an employee to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine or recover from any injury, disability, illness, or condition related to…
I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%.
EVERYTHING.
I also ended the statewide mask mandate.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 2, 2021
With that announcement, Texas joins Mississippi (whose governor made the same announcement yesterday) and many of the other usual suspects with no rules mandating that people wear masks or other facial covering in public or at work.
I say, “BOOOOOOO!!!!” This is the worst idea at the worst possible time. Yes, cases are…
Nine days before Christmas, one of my neighbors posted the following on my community’s Facebook page.
Any prayer warriors on here, please keep the roofer who just fell off one of the townhouses in your prayers. It doesn’t look like he’s moving. So so sad 😢.
Courtesy of OSHA, we now know exactly what happened. In addition to being completely tragic, it was also 100 percent avoidable. A local roofing company sent a 14-year-old…
The sign on the door of Platform Beer’s Columbus, Ohio, taproom reads: “The entire Platform Columbus crew has quit. The taproom is closed until further notice. Thank you!”
The employees and their former(?) employer are battling it out on Twitter.
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— Malibu StⒶsi 🏴 (@MalibuStasi) February 27, 2021-vs-
Please read our update about our Columbus taproom below. pic.twitter.com/IM1HCMvyEx
— Platform Beer Co. (@PlatformBeerco) February 28, 2021
Oliver Northern, the employee leading the walk-out,…
Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.
– Peter Hilton
2020 – 2021 has been a different school year for everyone. My kids are fortunate in that their school, Lake Ridge Academy, has been open for full-time, in-person instruction for the entire school year. There have, however, been key changes in the name of safety. For example, the school made the decision not to participate in interscholastic sports this year. My son was…
Repeat after me. Thou shalt only fire people in person, and never by phone call, email, or text message. If, because of COVID-19, you absolutely must fire someone by Zoom, at least have the decency to turn on your camera and mic.
Apparently, the Washington Football Team did not receive this memo. It just mass fired its entire staff of cheerleaders via Zoom, with the camera and mic turned off.
NBC News fills in the …
OSHA has cited a Missouri auto parts manufacturer for failing to implement and enforce coronavirus protections, which ultimately lead to an employee’s death. The details, from OSHA’s news release.
Two machine operators … who jointly operated a press tested positive for the coronavirus just two days apart, in late August 2020. The two workers typically labored for hours at a time less than two feet apart; neither wore a protective facial mask consistently. Ten…
Last year I nominated Tyson Foods for 2020’s Worst Employer because some of its managers started a cash buy-in betting pool on which of its employees would fall ill with COVID-19.
This past weekend, John Oliver did a scathing indictment of Tyson Foods and others for their health and safety record during the pandemic and otherwise.
If doing the right thing by your employees isn’t enough for you to take health and safety seriously during…
The headline reads, “Ex-Manager Sues Ample Hills in Lawsuit Alleging Harassment and Unsafe COVID-19 Protocols” (emphasis mine).
Here’s the lede:
Bryce Mottram, a former general manager at one of quirky ice cream purveyor Ample Hills’ scoop shops, has filed a lawsuit in New York Eastern District Court alleging that he was fired from the company in retaliation for speaking up about instances of sexual harassment and unsafe COVID-19 workplace protocols at the company.
I firmly…
You would think that an employee who purposely defecates on the workplace floor in an act of revenge against his boss and then brags about it is worthy of termination. And you’d be correct 100 percent of the time … unless that employee is a member of a labor union. An arbitration board cited the employee’s lengthy, faithful service record to the company and other mitigating circumstances in reinstating him.
As a result, the 8th …