My god, I tried to avoid Charlie Sheen this week. Yet, here’s my fourth Sheen-related post in the last four days. I guess you can’t avoid the inevitable, especially when there’s $100 million at stake. In fact, Sheen’s been a popular topic around the blawgosphere:
- Wait. Charlie Sheen Has Essential Duties? A Legal Look at His Termination Letters – from Daniel Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Charlie Sheen – from LaborRelated
- Employment Law Hits Hollywood – from the Manpower Employment Blawg
- Charlie Sheen and “Moral Turpitude” – from Koncision
- Get Ready for the Charlie Sheen Employment Litigation – from New York City Employment Lawyer
- All That’s Wrong With Social Media I Learned from Charlie Sheen – from Social Media Today
- Deadspin Publishes Charlie Sheen’s Phone Number – from The Not-So Private Parts
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Ensuring Your Wellness Programs Do Not Violate GINA – from Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Discrimination in Decisions About Near-Future and Far-Future Events – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- What has the Supreme Court Done to Employer Investigations? – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space
- As The EEOC World Turns In 2011 – from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- Supreme Court: Check before taking a supervisor’s word on discipline – from HR Cafe
- Creating A Split With the Second Circuit, The Sixth Circuit Approves Sick Leave Policies That May Reveal A Disability To A Supervisor – from Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
- Workforce Management on sexual orientation at work – from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- OMG! Chrysler’s Twitter account drops the F-Bomb – from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Judge Rules Facebook Won’t Be the New Frontier In Debt Collection – from Molly DiBianca’s Going Paperless
- Restrictive Social Media Policies Lead To a Better Union Case – from TLNT
- Judges use Facebook to research litigants – from Internet Cases
- Is it Really Illegal to Require an Applicant or Employee to Disclose her Password to a “Friends-Only” Facebook Page? – from Workplace Privacy Counsel
- Do You Check Facebook When Hiring? – from Nolo’s Employment Law Blog
- Why You Could Be Breaking The Law By Researching Job Candidates Online – from Business Insider
- Developing a Social Media Policy—Dos and Don’ts – from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- These Are The Emails Jim Tressel Sent While Being Really Serious – from Deadspin
- What the iPad 2 Means for Lawyers – from The Mac Lawyer
Labor Relations
- 10 Labor Relations Resources for HR – from The Human Race Horses
- Secretly taping the boss: Is there a problem? – from Michigan Employment Law Connection
- NLRB Explains Its Google Ads, Discontinuation of Practice – from Labor Relations Today
- National Right to Work Act Reintroduced in the Senate – from Washington DC Employment Law Update
- Is the Board Ready to Use this Union Access Case to Overturn Register Guard? – from Labor Relations Update
- The NLRB Solicits Amicus Briefs On Whether Witness NLRB invites briefs on witness statements – from LawMemo Employment Law Blog
- Union Myths – from Real Clear Politics
- Public Sector Employees Earn More than their Counterparts in the Private Sector – from LaborPains
- The Decertification Strategy for NFLPA – from Workplace Prof Blog
Wage & Hour
- Recordkeeping Under the FLSA – from Michael Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Could You Be Accused of “Wage Theft”? – from Compensation Café
- The Legality Of Reducing Wage Rate To “Avoid” Overtime: The Supreme Court May Decide – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Independent Contractor or Employee? – from HR Lawyer’s Blog
Litigation & Employee Relations
- The ins and out of tortious interference allegations after employees depart – from Work Matters
- Virginia Supreme Court Reverses Damages Award For Violation Of Nondisparagement Clause – from Laconic Law Blog
- It’s Not About the Law – from Jay Shepherd at Above the Law
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Study Ranks States by Employment Regulations – from HR.BLR.com
- Would You Hire OJ? – from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
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