On Tuesday, I was the special guest on the Lunch as the Compensation Café roundtable. The topic: Pay Equity—Not Just for Women! Thanks to my hosts—Ann Bares (from Compensation Force) , Stephanie Thomas (from The Proactive Employer Blog), and Jim Brennan—for an engaging conversation about the importance of compensation self-audits. For those who missed it, the reply is available at focus.com.
Also, today is the last day to vote for the LexisNexis Top 25 Labor & Employment Blogs of 2011. Thanks to everyone who’s voted for any of these deserving blogs.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Is This the Right Way to Help the Unemployed? – from You’re the Boss Blog
- Full Employment, for Lawyers – from National Review Online
- Business Case for Proactive EEO Compliance – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- Suit By EEOC Not Covered Under EPLI Policy – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer
- Hot Dog! EEOC accuses eatery of same-sex sexual harassment – from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Accommodating Religion: NYC Adopts Definitions of Undue Hardship and Reasonable Accommodation for Employees – from The L•E•Jer
- How to Protect Your Business Against Discrimination Lawsuits – from CPEhr
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Social-Media Policies: Ethical Issues for Court Employees – from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Facebook’s Timeline Will Impact Your Career – from Harvard Business Review
- Facebook Keeps A History Of Everyone Who Has Ever Poked You, Along With A Lot Of Other Data – from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- Text Message, Email, and Social Media Authentication – from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Firings, Discipline Over Facebook Posts Leads To Surge In Legal Disputes – from Business Insider
HR & Employee Relations
- Employment at Will: The Most Misunderstood Principle in the Workplace – from TLNT
- 5 Investigation Interview Mistakes to Steer Clear Of – from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- Choosing the Investigator – from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update
- HR Related Musings: Layoffs and Competition – from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Bad Reward Decisions & Layoffs – from Ann Bares’s Compensation Force
- How Paying Departing Employees to “Tend the Garden” Can Benefit an Employer's Business – from Unfair Competition & Trade Secrets Counsel
- No Smokers Allowed – from Rob Radcliff’s Smooth Transitions
- Employment Documents in Plain English – A Primer – from Tim Eavenson’s Current Employment
- The Top Office Pet Peeves Of Workers Around the World – from Workplace Diva
Wage & Hour
- Employers, don’t be too quick to take that IRS “independent contractor” deal – from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Are Employers Rolling the Dice Under the IRS’s Employee/Independent Contractor Reclassification Program? – from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Smart Phones and The DOL: Employers Better Wise Up – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Phone conversation with boss counted as working off the clock – from HR Cafe
- Continuous Confusion: Defining the Workday in the Modern Economy – from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- Some Realities of Unpaid Overtime Claims – from Portland Oregon Employment Lawyer
- Failing to Return Employee’s Phone Calls May Be FMLA Retaliation – from FMLA Insights
- Curbing FMLA Abuse: Policies Restricting an Employee’s Travel While on Paid Sick Leave – from Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Blog
- “Out of Control” Employee Screaming Profanities Loses out on COBRA Due to Gross Misconduct – from SmartHR
Labor Relations
- What? NLRB overrules employee vote to boot union – from HR Daily Report
- AFL-CIO v. American Bar Association on LMRDA Disclosure Rules – from Workplace Prof Blog