Chris Hansen’s Dateline NBC series To Catch a Predator was one of my guilty pleasures. It was eye-opening to watch a bunch of creeps try to explain why they needed a bag full of condoms and a six-pack of beer for their play date with a 13-year-old girl. After three years of nabbing these (alleged) pedos, you’d think that Chris would have learned the power of the hidden camera. Think again. From the Baltimore Sun:
The NBC anchor was secretly filmed while on a date with someone who was most definitely not his wife.
According to the Daily Mail, Hansen has been carrying on a secret affair with a local TV reporter from Florida, and he was busted taking her to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton before returning to her apartment for the evening.
I hope they at least served Chris cookies and lemonade before they broke the news to him that he’d been busted.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- 15 Things You Need to Know About Disability Discrimination – from Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Octogenarian Manager Strikes Blow Against Age Bias – from Workplace Fairness
- Age discrimination: Assumptions that lead to trouble – from HR Cafe
- EEOC Charges Abercrobmie & Fitch Violated Muslim Employee’s Rights – from Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- Getting Used to Sexual Harassment: “Boiling Frog” Syndrome – from Employment Lawyer Blog
- Is My Boss Racist, or Just Being a Good Manager? – from Evil HR Lady
- When are Employee Pregnancy Policies Considered Unequal Treatment? – from Virginia Employment Law Journal
- Guide to Dress Codes and Nondiscrimination Laws – from HireCentrix
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Will Google+ Kill Facebook? – from Manpower Employment Blawg
- Facebook hits 750 million users milestone – from Boy Genius Report
- Don’t Let These Facebook Follies Happen To You – from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- Will Facebook Destroy Your Job Search? – from Forbes
- Facebook Post Not a “Serious” FLSA Compaint – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Social Media and Discovery: Accessing Password Protected Material – from LE Blog
- LinkedIn Lessons for Employers: Part 6 – from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Revenge Is Best Served On A 64 Inch TV Screen – from Workplace Diva
HR & Employee Relations
- Ohio a hotbed of biotech job growth – from Dayton Business Journal
- A Test to See If Anyone Actually Reads Your Employee Handbook... – from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- Stealing the Competition’s Employees – from Rob Radcliff’s Smooth Transitions
- Employee Perks Return Amid Fears of Poaching – from In Charge
- When Does Preparing to Compete Become Unlawful Competition? – from Texas Employment Law Update
- Screwing up at your new gig – from CareerDiva, Eve Tahmincioglu
- The Ethics of Sleep – from LaborRelated
- SHRM Las Vegas Day 3: How Zappos Tony Hsieh Wowed the HR Pros – from TLNT
- Things You Can’t Do on a Plane: Vol. 2 – from Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs
- Drug and Alcohol Testing of Employees in the Workplace – from Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
Wage & Hour
- Could the Beastie Boys collect overtime pay in Pennsylvania? – from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- “Girls Gone Wild” Film Editor Seeks Unpaid Overtime Pay – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Pizza Chain Fined For Violating Overtime Pay Laws And Retaliation – from Overtime Lawyer Blog
- Can You Terminate Someone the Day They Return From FMLA? – from Michael Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Third Circuit Sustains Employee’s Removal for Lying About Reason for Absences – from The FMLA Blog
Labor
- Push to Repeal Ohio Law on Public Workers Gains Ground – from New York Times
- More About the NLRB’s Proposed Rules on So-Called “Quickie Elections” – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- NLRB to Hold Public Meeting on Proposed Representation Election Rule – from Labor Relations Counsel
- Major Changes to NLRB Rules Announced Today – from National Review Online
- NLRB Rule Would Burden Employers with Fast-Track Union Elections – from National Legal and Policy Center
More on Wal-Mart v. Dukes
- Too Big to Nail – from The Colbert Report
- Do We Need The Equal Rights Amendment In Light Of Wal-Mart? – from The Proactive Employer Blog
- The Supreme Court and Wal-Mart: Does diversity (of the Justices, that is) matter? – from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace
- Justices “split largely along gender lines” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Copland on Wal-Mart v. Dukes – from Ted Frank’s PointOfLaw Forum
- Wal-Mart v. Dukes: 7 Employment Takeaways from the Recent Supreme Court Ruling – from CPEhr
- More Thoughts on the Wal-Mart Decision – from Maryland Employment Law Developments
Written by Jon Hyman, a partner in the Labor & Employment group of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. For more information, contact Jon at (216) 736-7226 or jth@kjk.com.