Employers face a legitimate—and growing—problem: if older employees aren’t retiring on schedule (or at all), how do you plan for leadership transitions and future staffing needs without committing age discrimination?
The answer starts with recognizing that today’s workforce doesn’t retire the way it used to. Many employees expect to work past 65, often for financial
“When are you retiring?” That’s not an employer’s call to make.
Here’s a rule that employers still manage to forget or ignore: the decision about when to retire belongs to the employee. Start nudging. Start hinting. Start asking. Start factoring it into employment decisions. And you’re flirting with, if not outright committing, age discrimination.
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Have you heard about the small toy store owners in St. Paul, MN, who complained about ICE on their local news. They went on camera. They criticized ICE. Loudly. Publicly. Three hours later, two plainclothes ICE agents reportedly walked into the store and served a Notice of Inspection—an I-9 audit request.
And we’re supposed
Today at 10 a.m., the EEOC is scheduled to vote on whether to rescind its 2024 Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace.
Every January, like clockwork, Dry January comes roaring back.
If you want to take a month off drinking, good for you. Truly. Your body, your goals, your choice. No judgment, and it shouldn’t be anyone else’s business either.
But we also need to stop pretending Dry January is harmless.
For a whole lot of craft
What the hell is going on at the Department of Labor?
On January 10, the DOL posted this on X: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.”
Myriad people immediately
Employers love preliminary injunctions in restrictive covenant cases. And courts are supposed to grant them only in extraordinary circumstances.
The 8th Circuit just reminded everyone what “extraordinary” actually means.
In Choreo, LLC v. Lors, a private-equity-owned financial advisory firm watched its office implode. Four senior advisors resigned and joined a competitor; weeks later eight
Some believe that once an employee complains to the EEOC, discipline must stop. Supervisors must tread lightly. Performance problems must be ignored.
In Andrews v. DeJoy, the court affirmed summary judgment for the Postal Service on a retaliation claim brought by a
Arsenal–Tottenham is one of the nastiest rivalries in sports. If you don’t follow English football, think Eagles–Cowboys, Yankees–Red Sox, or Ohio State–Michigan, and then crank it up a notch or ten. London neighbors. More than a century of history and hatred.
Which is why it was a really, really big deal earlier this week when
The 6th Circuit just delivered an opinion that reinforces two lessons employers should already know: accommodations require clarity and documentation, and timecard falsification is a litigation killer.