Employers and their HR professionals may want to sit down before reading on: If a manager in your company text messages a picture of his “fully erect penis” to an employee and then fires that employee the day after she brings this to your attention, you will probably be sued. In other news, water tends
April 2014
Michigan Employers Must Consider Telecommuting as a Reasonable Accommodation
Under a recent federal court ruling, Michigan employers must be prepared to consider telecommuting as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for an employee under a 4/22/2014 court ruling.
Specifically, Jane Harris was terminated from her position as a resale steel buyer at Ford Motor Co. This termination occurred shortly after she asked…
Employee Terminations: Delaying the Inevitable is Inevitably Bad for the Company
Employee terminations are an unfortunate reality of every business. But that doesn’t mean employers and their managers are good at carrying out terminations.
Take for example a response Sir James Dyson (yes, the vacuum guy was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006) gave when he responded to Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Ask a Billionaire” feature that…
Requiring a Current Employee to Sign a Non-compete Agreement: Will it be Enforceable?
Under Michigan law, requiring current employees to sign a non-compete agreement presents unique issues for employers when it comes to having an enforceable agreement.
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