Willie Mays … Jack Bauer … Jon Hyman … what do we all have in common? The number 24. HR Examiner, one of the preeminent online magazines on HR issues, recently named me to its list of the top 25 digital influencers for human resources—number 24, to be exact. Please check out the entire list, which is chock-full of great HR bloggers and tweeters.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- What would Kenny Powers do? Interview questions to avoid – from The Employer Handbook Blog
- Sexual Harassment: You Knew or Should Have Known – from Michael Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- “Associational Disability Discrimination”—Yet Another Protected Category – from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- Non-impaired employee may be able to bring a claim under the ADA’s “associational disability” provision – from Employment Law Matters
- Wal-Mart Agrees to Give Women Extra Time to File Discrimination Lawsuits – from How Appealing
- Verizon Consent Decree Provides Road Map For Surviving EEOC Scrutiny of No Fault Attendance and Leave of Absence Policies – from Employer Law Report
- Two Recent Decisions Illuminate for Employers the Broad Contours of ADA Confidentiality vs. the Narrow Boundaries of HIPAA Privacy – from Workplace Privacy Counsel
- ADA And GINA: The EEOC Suggests That Additional Layers Of Privacy Protections For Employee Health Information May Be Necessary – from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- Substance abuse and the ADA: Can too much caring get you in trouble? – from HR Cafe
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Social Media: Used Not Just to “Friend”, but to Hire – from Smart HR Manager
- LinkedIn and Litigation – from Augmented Legality
- Twitter Fail and Compliance – from Compliance Building
- E-Monitoring in the Workplace: Do’s and Do Not’s – from Workplace Insights
- How much time are your employees on Facebook? from Rob Radcliff’s Smooth Transitions
- Monitoring Employee Communications Requires Up-to-Date Consent – from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: A Criminal Statute That Extends to the Employment Relationship? – from Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Employers Hunt Down Your Bachelor Party Pics on Facebook – from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Google Plus for lawyers : First impressions – from Real Lawyers Have Blogs
- Social Media “Incidents” Costing Average Company $4 Million A Year – from Workplace Diva
- LinkedIn Launches “Apply With LinkedIn” Button – from Social Axcess
HR & Employee Relations
- Can you get fired for cursing at work? – from CNN
- Using Trickery and Deceit in Workplace Investigations – from iSight Blog
- How to Use Payroll Debit Cards to Pay Employees – from Virginia Employment Law Journal
- Criminal Histories and Employment Opportunities – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- 21 Workplace Benefits That Are Rapidly Disappearing – from US News and World Report
- HR Mistakes in Mergers and Acquisitions – from TLNT
- What To Do When Angry Employees Leave – from Inc.
Labor Relations
- NLRB Division of Advice Provides Additional Guidance on Social Media Issues – from Seth Borden’s Labor Relations Today
- NLRB: Not All Employee Facebook Posts Deserve Protection After All – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Ikea’s Virginia Manufacturing Plant Workers Vote for Union – from Bloomberg
- First Circuit Upholds NLRB’s Strike Against Compensation Confidentiality Policy – from Labor Relations Counsel
- NLRB Quickie Election Fact Check – from Labor Relations Institute
Wage & Hour
- U.S. DOL Seeks New Employment-Law-Related Apps – from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Parental Bereavement Act Would Amend FMLA to Provide Leave Upon Death of a Child – from FMLA Insights
Trade Secrets & Competition
- Noncompete Defamation Leads to Six-Figure Verdict – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Affidavits Not Enough to Obtain Injunctive Relief in Alleged Raiding Case – from Trading Secrets
- Court Enjoins Lawyer From Competing and Soliciting Clients of Former Law Firm – from Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Blog
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.