Author: The Law Office of Eric R. Brown
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How Covid-19 Changed Our Workplace For the Better
Two years ago everything changed. For me, it was overwhelmingly for the better. That is not to minimize the horrors of the pandemic, or the pain that it caused for so many families. We were fortunate. Covid did not devastate us. It could have. We were just lucky. So for me, the last two years…
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Polls Show Unionization Gaining Popularity as Workers Try to Take Back Control of Their Lives
The Gallup organization conducted a poll last summer asking Americans about their impressions of labor unions. Based on the current membership numbers, I would have expected that fewer than fifty percent of Americans feel positively about unions. I would have been wrong. Despite the low numbers of actual labor union members in America, a majority…
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Stop the Woke Act
While Americans have spent the last decade and a half at each other’s throats over issues like saluting the flag, the Second Amendment, bathrooms in schools, climate change, and Supreme Court justices, a megalomaniac in eastern Europe has been methodically planning catastrophe in Europe. And as we watched Russian tanks roll toward Kyiv this past…
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What’s Biden Really Doing With His Recent Supreme Court Nominee?
When President Biden announced a couple of years ago that his first appointment to the Supreme Court would be a Black woman, I don’t think he was really thinking about ensuring that a previously-silenced voice would be heard on the Court. I believe he was thinking about his plummeting poll numbers and a last-ditch effort…
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Here’s Where We Are With Vaccine and Testing Requirements in the Workplace…
A day is coming when I no longer write about how COVID impacts work. That day is not today. Oh, how I wish it were. There was a time, believe it or not, when I used to write about overtime rules, and harassment, and Christmas parties. Just not lately. And not today. Today I want…
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Racial Discrimination in the Hiring Process
February is Black History Month. Last Monday, most of America was introduced to an otherwise anonymous Black football coach who decided to put his career at risk by challenging the National Football League’s hiring practices. Brian Flores, the former coach of the Miami Dolphins has alleged that the NFL engages in widespread racial discrimination when…
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Baseball Lockout
Usually at this time of year, before we ever heard the term COVID, I would find myself in the sun in Port St. Lucie, Florida hitting baseballs and sharing stories with Ron Swoboda and Mookie Wilson and Doc Gooden. It was my regular winter ritual. COVID threw a wrench into that ritual a couple of…
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It’s Time to Pay Essential Workers
During this pandemic — which is officially two years old — there have been workers who have essentially kept this country going. We have acknowledged them with hearts on front lawns, thank you notes, and parades. I have maintained that the only way to truly acknowledge them is to pay…
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Should We Still Be Forcing Employees To Be Vaccinated?
I love this week between Christmas and New Year. Not much is happening at work; it is time to catch up with family and friends. A time to take stock. A time to rest. I tend to do a lot of reading and writing during the week. Sometimes, I…
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Omicron Hits as FMLA Ramps Up in CT
About six weeks ago I naively wrote that we finally had our hands around the neck of the pandemic and we were headed back to a normal work year in the new year. I think I must have gotten my booster around that time and I was feeling pretty…
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