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23 Nov EEOC Issues New Guidelines on National Origin Discrimination

Employment Discrimination, Workplace Culture and Conduct | BT Currents

  Earlier this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new guidelines on national origin discrimination. These extensive guidelines, which update those issued in 2002, define what constitutes national origin discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and provide more than 30 examples as well as “promising practices” that can help employers avoid such discrimination. Title VII is wide-reaching, applying to employers with 15 or more full- or part-time employees.   The new guidelines offer the following definition of national origin discrimination:…

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21 Nov Using an Employee’s Social Media Posts to Prove Laziness? Think Again

Employment Lessons, Fair Labor Standards Act | BT Currents

  Is it permissible for an employer who is subject to an unpaid overtime claim to request an employee’s social media postings over a three-year period? The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida found such requests to be overly broad, unduly burdensome and unreasonable.   A sales representative sued her employer for uncompensated off-the-clock work. During discovery, the employer, Orange Lake Country Club, requested the following information from the employee:   All online profiles, postings, messages (including, without limitation, tweets, replies, retweets,…

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04 Nov Airline Employee’s Fraudulent FMLA Request Ensures His Claim Never Gets Off the Ground

Employee Leave | BT Currents

  If I had to guess, there is probably no statute that brings more frustration or gives employers more fits than the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – with intermittent leave occupying a special pedestal in this pantheon of exasperation. What to do about the employee who seems to always need FMLA right before or after a planned vacation or a three-day weekend? Admittedly, sometimes there’s nothing that can be done. However, in a recent Fourth Circuit opinion, the court saw through Plaintiff’s request…

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28 Oct Arbitration Agreement Enforced Based on Continued Employment

Employment Lessons | BT Currents

  According to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, two University of Phoenix employees agreed to mandatory arbitration agreements by continuing to work after receiving, but purportedly not electronically signing, the acknowledgment of the agreements.   In the unpublished decision in Aldrich v. University of Phoenix, Inc., the court found that the employees each electronically received the arbitration agreements, which were contained in the employee handbook.  The court also found that the university’s records showed each employee completed the acknowledgment form electronically (both individuals deny…

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21 Sep The Battle Is Joined: Two New Entrants in the Fight Over New Overtime Rules

Fair Labor Standards Act | BT Currents

  Two new sets of allied combatants have joined the fray looking to overturn the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime regulations and halt the imminent effective date. The DOL’s new rules more than double the salary threshold (to $47,476) for workers to even be considered for the so-called “white collar” exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime premium requirements and are currently scheduled to take effect Dec. 1.   On Sept. 20, two complaints were filed in the Eastern District of Texas:…

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