WIRTW #149 (the work / family edition)

October is National Work & Family Month. In it’s honor, I bring you three posts I read this week celebrating this cause:

• European MPs Vote to Extend Maternity Leave – from Workplace Prof Blog

• The Top Five Issues Affecting Working Families Today – from Work and Family Blog

• 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

• EEOC Holds Public Hearing on Use of Credit Reports for Hiring – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog

• Employment Credit Reports Have Value: I Hope the EEOC Listened – from employeescreenIQ Blog

• Credit Checks: Yes or No? – from Michael Haberman’s HR Observations

• Extraterrestrial Employment Law – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer

• ADA accommodation: How supervisors can navigate the gray zone – from Stephen Meyer’s HR Cafe

• Recent Lawsuit Reminds Employers: You May Be Liable For Non-Employee Harassment – from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™

• Meet GINA Before You're Introduced in Court – from Employment Essentials

• Religious Discrimination Complaints On the Rise at Work – from Courtney Rubin at Inc.com

• Obesity Under the ADA - EEOC Files Suit – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space

Workplace Technology & Social Networking

• Controlling Workplace Language is a Real Concern – from Digital Workplace Blog

• Too Much Information: When Social Media Spills Into The Workplace – from Lance Haun at TLNT

• Legal Ethics and The Social Network – from Social Media Law Update

• Take-Aways from the Navy’s Social-Media Handbook – from Molly DiBianca at the Delaware Employment Law Blog

• Social Media Update II from Fitzpatrick on Employment Law

• Seven Steps to Managing Your Online Reputation – from You’re the Boss Blog

• Fullbright’s 7th Annual Litigation Trends Survey – from Sharon Nelson’s Ride The Lightning

• Your touchscreen phone is a petri dish – from Boy Genius Report

• New Jersey Appellate Court: Lawyers Can Google Jurors – from Molly DiBianca’s Going Paperless

• Workers hogging bandwidth for personal use – from Barry Shlachter at the Columbus Dispatch

Wage & Hour

• A Brief Refresher on the Reemployment Rights of Veterans Under USERRA – from WorkplaceHorizons

• Coffee Breaks? Meal Breaks? Smoke breaks? What Is Required By Law? – from Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog

• Personal Liability Under The FLSA: The Issue Of Contro – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights

• Happy 72nd Birthday, FLSA - Time For An Overhaul – from Jennifer Gokenbach’s Colorado Employer's Law Blog

• Argument Recap: Court seeks clarity on what counts as a “complaint” under the Fair Labor Standards Act – from SCOTUSblog

• Conflicting Fitness for Duty Reports Preclude Retaliation Claim from FMLA Insights

HR & Employee Relations

• Putting Me and Other Employer’s Lawyers Out of Work – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer

• What if we applied the Golden Rule at work? – from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace

• Poppy seed bagels and false positive drug tests – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered

• 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

• Evidence Employees Are MORE SATISFIED With Their Bosses: Why It May Be So – from Bob Sutton

• Suggestions and Links for Creating or Updating Employee Handbooks – from George's Employment Blawg

• Dogs at Work – from Nolo’s Employment Law Blog

• Is a Policy Still a Policy if It's Not in Writing? – from Mindy Chapman’s Case In Point

Labor Relations

• “Card Checkmate” – from The ChamberPost

• Company Needs vs. Employee Wants—Guess Who Wins? – from RJ Morris at Fistful of Talent

• Unions, Recognition and Employee Engagement – from Derek Irvine at Compensation Cafe

Non-Competes & Trade Secrets

• Reducing the Risk of Litigation When Hiring Employees with Non-Compete Agreements – from Delaware Non-Compete Law Blog

• 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

• Hiring From the Competition – from Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog

• Conspiracy Theory: Employees Conspire to Breach Non-Competes or Steal Trade Secrets – from Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Blog

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