I have used this space to write a lot about my family. You know I’m married, have two amazing children, Norah and Donovan, and a dog. But, you may not know that my family includes a teenager too. We call her our German daughter. She’s been living with us for the past 10 months. Next week, she leaves us to go home. You never know what the experience will bring when you permit someone to share your home and your lives for a year. We hoped for the best, and with our year coming to a close, I can say we got it. We gained another member of family, albeit one that lives more than 4,000 miles away. I will always think of Zarah as our German daughter.
For more on the experience, please read my wife’s thoughts on her blog.
As for Zarah, this is not, “Auf Weidersein,” but, “Wir werden du bald sehen.”
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Sex at work: test your knowledge! — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Management-Side Firm Whines Because EEOC Mediators Are Doing Their Jobs — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- The EEOC is Focusing on Systemic Harassment. So Should You. — from Jonathan Segal
- Does Telling Me To Stop Complaining Count As Discrimination? — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Miles on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- “Racism In The Everydayness” — from Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- “This man says he’s willing to die so he can post naked pictures without getting fired” — from How Appealing
- Why Social Media is Becoming an HR Issue — from GMS Blog
- Employers crack down on social media abuse — from Business Management Daily
- 20 cool iOS 8 features that Apple barely even mentioned at WWDC 2014 — from Boy Genius Report
HR & Employee Relations
- What Single Policy Could Ease Americans’ Time Crunch? — from Time
- Employment at-will trumps the 2nd Amendment (Yes, you can fire the employee who shoots a gun at work) — from Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- By 2020 Millennials Will Represent 40% of the Workforce. Are You Ready? — from Blogging4Jobs
- Employment Protections for Medical Marijuana — from Minnesota Employer
Wage & Hour
- FLSA Transparency Threat Persists — from Compensation Cafe
- Overhauling overtime — from HR Hero Line
- Telecommuters, Minimum Wage and Overtime — Oh My! — from The Emplawyerologist
- FLSA Overtime, Minimum Wage Lawsuits Continue to Skyrocket — from Wage & Hour Insights
Labor Relations
- One Is the Loneliest Number….But Even Acting Alone Employees May Be Engaged in Concerted Activity — from All in a Day’s Work
- NLRB Round-up: The Long Arm of Labor Law — from Blogging4Jobs
- Threatening the boss: the NLRB weighs in — from Michigan Employment Law Connection
- NLRB Finds Employee’s Profane and Insubordinate Conduct Shielded by Protected Activity — from Labor Relations Today