I’d also be remiss if I did not give one more plug for Stephanie Thomas’s Proactive Employer Podcast on social media, in which I participated, which aired live at 8:30 this morning. Part 2 airs next Friday at the same time. Both installments will be available for on-demand listening at The Proactive Employer and via iTunes.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Cubicle Walls Closing In On ADA Violations – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- 4 Ways Employers Skirt Discrimination Laws – from The Street
- Religious Discrimination Based on Abercrombie “Look Policy” – from Employment Matters Blog
- Changing Gears in Reverse Discrimination Claims: Differences under Michigan and Federal Law – from Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- No-Fault Attendance? In light of the EEOC/Verizon settlement, what’s the point? – from Employment and Labor Insider
- Avoiding discrimination class actions – from Inside Counsel
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Steamed—Employment Law Attorneys & Social Media – from Blogging4Jobs
- OMG! The cost of social-media blunders – from today.com
- Plaintiffs, Beware of Social Media – from Social Media Today
- Nearly Half of Companies Have No Social Networking Policy – from Manpower Employment Blawg
- Using Social Media for Discovery Has Ethical Implications – from From the Sidebar
- Someone Posted Something Nasty About You On The Internet. Now What? – from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- The Use of Social Media in Hiring Decisions: Tempting Fruit from a Poisonous Tree – from Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Blog
- The New Norm in HR: Social Media Recruiting – from Social Axcess
- Social Recruiting On The Rise In 2011 – from Cincy Recruiter’s World
- How to Create A Social Recruiting Strategy – from MonsterThinking
Employment Relations & HR
- Potty Training and how it relates to Careers (this should be interesting) – from Smelling Some Roses
- Bill Clinton and the “Extreme and Outrageous” IIED Hurdle – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space
- 7 Ways to Get at the Truth in a Workplace Investigation – from iSight Blog
- Employee Morale Tanks When A Co-worker Takes Sick Leave – from Workplace Diva
- Plaintiff’s Lawyer Reveals: Mistakes that Make My Day – from HR Daily Advisor
- Anti-Anti-Smoking Rules – from Workplace Prof Blog
- Leaky Hiring Tests: Are They Your Organization’s Most Expensive Mistake? – from TLNT
- Horrible Bosses? – from Harvard Business Review
- Unlimited Vacation, but Can You Take It? – from The Wall Street Journal
Wage & Hour
- Complaint re: Wages on Facebook Not Basis for FLSA Retaliation Claim – from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Salaried Workers, Do You Get Overtime Pay? Odds Are You Should! – from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- You Be the Judge: Did boss tell employee to falsify his time card to omit overtime? – from HR Cafe
- DOL Playbook – from Laconic Law Blog
- Employers Urge Congress To Revise the Fair Labor Standards Act – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Using GPS Tracking Technology to Prove Intermittent FMLA Abuse? – from Texas Employment Law Update
- Is There Paternity Leave in Baseball? – from Work and Family Blog
- Taking FMLA Leave to Care for a Parent or Parental Figure – from Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
Labor Relations
- NLRB’s Invisible Hand Will Hold Back Business – from The ChamberPost
- Bill That Would Remove NLRB’s Authority to Order Employers to Relocate or Close Their Facilities is Introduced – from Washington D.C. Employment Law Update
- Speakers List Grievances About Proposed NLRB Election Rule Changes – from Labor Relations Counsel
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.