You don’t need to actually write “regardless of anything the British will tell you” in a food article. It’s always implied. The only good thing about British food is that they all know it’s terrible, so send all of their cooks to learn in other countries, like France, and eat a lot of Indian food.

It’s a regional thing. I never heard the phrase hand-dipped until I moved away from New England.

Complete nonsense? Pretty much every economist acknowledges that the EITC is a subsidy. It's not a moral judgment to say that, and it's not a judgment on what your employer is responsible for. It's a subsidy because employers can pay less in wages to get the same value, because the government pays the workers cash for…

This study doesn't even include the government's biggest giveaway to low-wage employers, which is the Earned Income Tax Credit. It's something like a $65 billion subsidy to employers who pay a low wage. Not that I think it's a bad idea— just, for it not to be a subsidy, it needs to be combined with a high minimum…

But I'm not here to bash us.

Yeah, Darden basically has taken its employees' right to sue them away through a very restrictive arbitration clause. No class actions allowed in arbitration, generally. So you have to take your complaint first directly to management, then to mediation, then to (individual) arbitration, and if you skip any of those…

Firing them for being sick, though, is perfectly legal, and there's nothing a worker can do to enforce any kind of health code against the employer.

I took your response that "stomach viruses/food poisoning very much counts" to be a response to my point that an employer may fire a worker for taking unpaid time even if the worker is in food service and has a stomach virus. So you're right, it may be in a technical sense illegal to allow the worker to handle food—…

Right— and you can be fired for going home in this situation in almost every jurisdiction in the US.

Nope. Your employer can fire you for calling in sick if you have a stomach virus in most places, regardless of whether you'd take that day off paid or unpaid. You may think that because it's food service, stomach viruses count, but you'd be wrong, there are cases under the FMLA establishing that. You may think it's…

You're mixing statistics. I believe the EEOC stats for litigated cases includes settlements after a complaint is filed; it's all cases where the EEOC ends up taking an employer to court. It doesn't include settlements before filing a complaint in court, but for those, they're not really representing the employee.

I totally agree with you that employees in similar situations should file with the EEOC, and Rabbit LaRue probably could, too, but I'm writing to quibble with one thing you said:

Possibly; Wisconsin's is a decent example of food code laws requiring food service employers to report certain type of illnesses and keep employees out of work if they're vomiting (though not for many illnesses, such as colds or bronchitis, etc). But what's the remedy there? Employees can't sue for food code…

Afternoon Delight's story: It's important to keep in mind that in almost all jurisdictions of the US, this would be perfectly legal. Bosses generally aren't required to give workers sick time unless it's a serious illness or injury, and then, it's only unpaid time. Stomach viruses don't count. Even in the very few…

If it's the case that she was fired or her position removed involuntarily (seems the school is contending that she was voluntarily transferred, which is different), then that's clearly a First Amendment violation. Public sector employees can't be fired for speaking out on a matter of public concern, and that's pretty…

HAHAHAHA I get it it's funny because at first you think it's a dude saying your wife wants to bone him which is oooh so bad and scary and emasculating but no it's a dude (who are we kidding, definitely a dude) who is a KITCHEN because your wife belongs in the kitchen!!! Hilarious.

Came here hoping to read some idiot's defense of mixed egg guy. So far:

Javelins used for track practice aren't actually sharp. More like hitting it with rock than poking it with a knife or something. The tip hit it with a glancing blow. My javelin skills definitely sucked, but that has nothing to do with my aim (you're scored on distance, not accuracy).

there are plenty of things you can do if you're actually interested in correcting or mitigating potential ecological problems.

nah I was totally polite about it, I asked the goose to stop shitting on the field nicely before resorting to the javelin.