Are You Ready for Some Football, Hangovers and Sick Days?

Posted on February 3, 2017 by evilqueenhr

Deflate Gate II – Enjoy this post from last year…..  Are you ready for some football? Do you hear Hank Williams Jr. every time someone says it?

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The biggest game of the year is Sunday and just in case you were wondering, no one worked after lunch today.  They will passed squares around, shared recipes and talked about their plans.

Monday will be worse….  Hangovers, upset stomachs, sick days and someone has to pay out the squares.  You know what’s not getting done? Work.

But that’s ok. Because If your team isn’t bonding over things happening in the world, they aren’t a team.  So make a hangover basket on Monday, bring in some breakfast, Tums and Tylenol.  Your Employees will be grateful, well at least the people that don’t call in sick!

Check out our stats on lost productivity and previous Super Bowl articles.

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Our Super Bowl stats article.

Remember the Puppet Lady? Here’s our post from last year.  I looked her up and she’s booked two months out and doing great.  Fast Company did an article on her and she’s even had to hire some puppet staff.

Enjoy the game, see you on Monday, if you make it in……….

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Here we go… The Department of Labor Appeal

Posted on December 1, 2016 by evilqueenhr

Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water….  The Department of Labor has filed an Appeal to the injunction.  Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled with a nationwide injunction.  The ruling stopped the implementation of the overtime changes that were to take effect on December 1st. Cheers and Jeers were heard across America.

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Now we wait to see how fast this case is heard and what will happen.  Lawyers and experts have said that Judge Mazzant would not have stopped the rule from moving forward unless he thought the 21 states in the lawsuit had a strong case.

With the holidays coming, this appeal will either be rushed or pushed off until the beginning of the year.  As an HR person, I feel like up is down and down is up lately. Everything that the experts thought would happen did not.  I assured everyone mid-year that the $50,000 would be brought down to $35,000 because that seemed reasonable. Wrong. I was certain there would be no injunction because Judge Mazzant was appointed by President Obama and the Department of Labor surely felt confident they were within the law. Wrong again.  Then all the experts told us this was dead until the new administration.  Seriously, Wrong Again!

My hope is that the threshold is revisited to a reasonable rate and this is put off until that can happen.  Reasonable doesn’t seem to be the norm though.  I’m having flashbacks of the first year of Obamacare and the last minute implementations, changes and cancellations.  No one seems to worry about the time it takes to implement, stop and implement these changes again.  My Christmas wish is that they don’t do this the week of Christmas. I hope they get this resolved or give us a timeline next week.  But I won’t hold my breath.  I promise to keep you up to date! #herewegoagain #overtimechanges #departmentoflabor #hrisnotfunindecember

Here is the link to the Appeal for your enjoyment.

 

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