NNAHRA Plus Fall Training
NNAHRA I have the privilege of working with the dedicated NNAHRA team this week in preparation for the NNAHRA Conference ...
101 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Tribal Employment
101 Things is my most popular training sessions. The written materials are now updated with significantly more detail and analysis. ...
NNAHRA Conference
The NNAHRA Conference is a little more than a month away and I look forward to being both a speaker ...
FMLA FORMS CHANGE
Whether the Family & Medical Leave Act applies to tribes is an open question with an argument that it applies ...
Drafting Tribal Employment Laws & Handbooks was recently published and is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Xlibris and wherever you purchase books.
Drafting Tribal Employment Laws & Handbooks is a practical guide to drafting comprehensive tribal employment laws and the policies included in ...
Gratitude & Opportunities
A thank you, a book, investigations, hearings and more articles. First and foremost, I continue to be exceedingly grateful to ...
Employer Liability Issues During COVID
Outside of Indian Country, an early May 2020 count revealed dozens of COVID-19 employment related lawsuits in federal courts. Eight ...
Tribal Employer Reopen Policies
Tribal employers are confronted with the difficult decision of inviting employees back to the tribal workplace to provide the needed ...
Three Questions Returning Employees
In this edition three questions are addressed which are relevant to employees returning to work for tribal governments, casinos and ...
Tribal Employment News-EEOC Modifies Guidance
EEOC Re-Issues Confusing Guidance As tribal governments, casinos and other entities are reopening, there are many questions in how ...
Will your handbook disclaimer be enough?
In a recent state court decision the court evaluated whether the employer's employee handbook created an implied contract, and if ...
Two Parts: (1) Furlough versus Lay-Off (2) More FMLA FAQs
The first portion of this edition of Tribal Employment News addresses the distinction between furlough, lay-off and reduction-in-force. The ...
Does the change to the FMLA apply to tribal employers?
This question requires a couple step analysis. Must tribal employers follow the FMLA? There is an argument the FMLA applies ...
Legal Update
The metaphor “drinking water out of a firehose” is meaningful to tribal leaders and their human resources team because ...
A Preference Challenge
Whether preferring a Native person over a non-Native person is an unlawful use of race was settled over 40 years ...
Service Animal Rules For Tribal Employers
There is an increase in the number of service and comfort or emotional support animals appearing with their companions ...
Analysis Regarding Social Media Policies
Employees have almost no rights to freedom of speech in the workplace. That statement assumes (1) there is no collective ...
Employee Immunity Challenged by Court
Yesterday the United States Supreme Court ruled against tribal interests in the employee sovereign immunity decision titled Lewis v. ...
Do tribal employers have control over the immunity of tribal officials and employees?
Yes. Immunity is a defense to a lawsuit wherein the tribal government asserts that the court does not possess power ...
Consent After Dollar General
Last month the United States Supreme Court Court heard arguments in the tragic case titled Dollar General v. Mississippi ...
