April 15 Tip of the Week
April 15, 2025 2:44 pm“Drug Testing” Before you fire that employee who failed your annual/random/post-incident drug test by testing positive for marijuana, you may... Read More
Tag Archive: handbook
April 1 Tip of the Week
March 31, 2025 6:18 pm“Disability Discrimination and Marijuana Use” As marijuana use, both recreational and medical, has become legalized in many states,... Read More
March 25 Tip of the Week
March 25, 2025 2:04 pm“Traps for the Unwary” One of the most difficult aspects of Human Resources is the need to keep up... Read More
April 8 Tip of the Week
April 8, 2024 7:29 pm“Disability Accommodations” Think you don’t have to accommodate an employee working in a call center who suffers from angry, four-letter... Read More
April 1 Tip of the Week
April 1, 2024 7:49 pm“Drug Testing” Before you fire that employee who failed your annual/random/post-incident drug test by testing positive for marijuana, you may... Read More
March 25 Tip of the Week
March 26, 2024 1:56 pm“Adverse Employment Actions” Do you know what actions are considered adverse employment actions that could give rise to a... Read More
March 18 Tip of the Week
March 19, 2024 2:31 pm“OSHA Workplace Safety Incentive Programs” Does your workplace have a safety incentive program that rewards employees for completing a... Read More
March 11 Tip of the Week
March 11, 2024 3:13 pm“Disability Discrimination and Marijuana Use” As marijuana use, both recreational and medical, has become legalized in many states,... Read More
May 15 Tip of the Week
May 15, 2023 2:28 pm“Wage Deductions” Although it can seem tempting to take deductions from a departing employee’s final wages for unreturned uniforms... Read More
May 8 Tip of the Week
May 8, 2023 12:25 pm“Traps for the Unwary” One of the most difficult aspects of Human Resources is the need to keep up... Read More
December 19 Tip of the Week
December 19, 2022 6:25 pm“New Year, New Laws” As the calendar year ends and the holiday parties and time off draw to a close,... Read More
March 1 Tip of the Week
March 1, 2021 4:07 pmBack in October, the IRS released this Notice, extended the ACA reporting deadline for providing employees with plan year 2020... Read More
February 22 Tip of the Week
February 22, 2021 1:26 pmDid you know that policies in your employee handbook could potentially create contractual obligations? The Minnesota Supreme Court addressed this... Read More
Handbook Process
December 17, 2020 7:02 pm Leave your thoughtsDid you know myHRcounsel can draft your employee handbook? If you have an existing handbook that requires an update, we... Read More
Supreme Court Rules That Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits Employment Discrimination Against Gay and Transgender Individuals
June 24, 2020 4:09 pmBy now, you’ve likely heard about the landmark Supreme Court ruling issued last week in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia. Bostock is a consolidation of three cases involving employees who were fired either for being gay or transgender. In a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Court stated that “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.” Of course, discrimination on the basis of sex is specifically prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Employee Handbooks: The Most Critical Legal Document in HR
August 5, 2019 9:30 pmOne of the most frequently asked questions we get here at myHRcounsel is: do you do employee handbooks? The answer is always an emphatic, “YES!” Anyone who is a client of myHRcounsel gets an attorney-drafted, 50-state compliant, employee handbook. However, inquiring minds still want to know, “What should be in an employee handbook?” Every state’s laws are different, so your company will need different policies for each of the states where you employ workers. To that end, this list is illustrative and not exhaustive and is mostly based on federal laws only. But here we go:
May 27, 2019
May 29, 2019 1:56 pmDid you know that even if your company has a clearly stated and equally applied call-in procedure spelled out in... Read More
May 13, 2019
May 16, 2019 2:57 pmIf you are on the ball, your company probably already has anti-harassment, anti-discrimination, and anti-retaliation provisions spelled out in the... Read More