October is National Work & Family Month. In it’s honor, I bring you three posts I read this week celebrating this cause:
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European MPs Vote to Extend Maternity Leave – from Workplace Prof Blog
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The Top Five Issues Affecting Working Families Today – from Work and Family Blog
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Is There More to the Story About the New Mom Who Quit Her Job Because She Was Denied Access to a Lactation Room? – from Patrick Smith’s Iowa Employment Law Blog
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
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EEOC Holds Public Hearing on Use of Credit Reports for Hiring – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
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Employment Credit Reports Have Value: I Hope the EEOC Listened – from employeescreenIQ Blog
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Credit Checks: Yes or No? – from Michael Haberman’s HR Observations
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Extraterrestrial Employment Law – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer
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ADA accommodation: How supervisors can navigate the gray zone – from Stephen Meyer’s HR Cafe
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Recent Lawsuit Reminds Employers: You May Be Liable For Non-Employee Harassment – from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
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Meet GINA Before You're Introduced in Court – from Employment Essentials
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Religious Discrimination Complaints On the Rise at Work – from Courtney Rubin at Inc.com
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Obesity Under the ADA - EEOC Files Suit – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space
Workplace Technology & Social Networking
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Controlling Workplace Language is a Real Concern – from Digital Workplace Blog
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Too Much Information: When Social Media Spills Into The Workplace – from Lance Haun at TLNT
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Legal Ethics and The Social Network – from Social Media Law Update
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Take-Aways from the Navy’s Social-Media Handbook – from Molly DiBianca at the Delaware Employment Law Blog
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Social Media Update II from Fitzpatrick on Employment Law
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Seven Steps to Managing Your Online Reputation – from You’re the Boss Blog
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Fullbright’s 7th Annual Litigation Trends Survey – from Sharon Nelson’s Ride The Lightning
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Your touchscreen phone is a petri dish – from Boy Genius Report
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New Jersey Appellate Court: Lawyers Can Google Jurors – from Molly DiBianca’s Going Paperless
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Workers hogging bandwidth for personal use – from Barry Shlachter at the Columbus Dispatch
Wage & Hour
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A Brief Refresher on the Reemployment Rights of Veterans Under USERRA – from WorkplaceHorizons
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Coffee Breaks? Meal Breaks? Smoke breaks? What Is Required By Law? – from Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
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Personal Liability Under The FLSA: The Issue Of Contro – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
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Happy 72nd Birthday, FLSA - Time For An Overhaul – from Jennifer Gokenbach’s Colorado Employer's Law Blog
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Argument Recap: Court seeks clarity on what counts as a “complaint” under the Fair Labor Standards Act – from SCOTUSblog
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Conflicting Fitness for Duty Reports Preclude Retaliation Claim from FMLA Insights
HR & Employee Relations
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Putting Me and Other Employer’s Lawyers Out of Work – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer
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What if we applied the Golden Rule at work? – from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace
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Poppy seed bagels and false positive drug tests – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
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Getting a sense of a corporation’s culture: the job of every investigator (or, ruminations during a 7 hour layover in Dallas) – from Sindy Warren at the Warren & Hays Employment Law Blog
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Evidence Employees Are MORE SATISFIED With Their Bosses: Why It May Be So – from Bob Sutton
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Suggestions and Links for Creating or Updating Employee Handbooks – from George's Employment Blawg
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Dogs at Work – from Nolo’s Employment Law Blog
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Is a Policy Still a Policy if It's Not in Writing? – from Mindy Chapman’s Case In Point
Labor Relations
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“Card Checkmate” – from The ChamberPost
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Company Needs vs. Employee Wants—Guess Who Wins? – from RJ Morris at Fistful of Talent
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Unions, Recognition and Employee Engagement – from Derek Irvine at Compensation Cafe
Non-Competes & Trade Secrets
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Reducing the Risk of Litigation When Hiring Employees with Non-Compete Agreements – from Delaware Non-Compete Law Blog
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Jasmine v. Marvell: Remember To Hang Up Your Telephone After You Leave A Voicemail Message (Oh, And Don't Admit IP Theft Over The Telephone Either) – from Trading Secrets
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Hiring From the Competition – from Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
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Conspiracy Theory: Employees Conspire to Breach Non-Competes or Steal Trade Secrets – from Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Blog
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