As I’ve mentioned in this space before, my family is of mixed religion. I’m Jewish and my wife is Catholic. I offer this information because tonight at sundown begins Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Unlike Catholics, who confess their sins every week, we Jews ask for God’s forgiveness in a lump sum, once per year on Yom Kippur.
While this comparison is an over-simplification, it nevertheless serves as a jumping-off point to offer my apologies for any posts I’ve written over the past year that might have offended. I do not offer this apology for my viewpoints and opinions—for which I would never apologize or shy away from. Instead, I apologize if language and word choice caught some of my readers off-guard. Employment law can be dirty and offensive. For me, it’s part of what makes it interesting. It is not, however, everyone’s cup of tea.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Employers, don’t be overzealous with your wellness. Beware of the ADA and everything else – from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Criminal Background Checks and Avoiding Discriminatory Hiring Practices – from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- What Does “Similarly Situated” Really Mean? – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- Employee drug testing and bashful bladders; it’s a wicked pissah! – from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Attorneys Dancing Around Impact of Gender Identity Discrimination Law – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Disparate Impact and the Non-Traditional Plaintiff – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer
- Supreme Court Weighs Rights Of Parochial-School Teachers – from NPR
- EEOC vs. the ministerial exception – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- What Prospective Employers Hope To See In Your Facebook Account: Creativity, Well-Roundedness, & “Chastity” – from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- A Canadian Perspective on Social Media and Concerted Activity – from Fitzpatrick on Employment Law
- Attorneys’ Duties Regarding Employee Emails – from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Privacy and company email use—what can employees expect? – from Employment Law Bits
- Employee Privacy 3—Social Media – from Heather Bussing at HR Examiner
- You Are Your Company’s Biggest Security Risk – from Above the Law
- Employer did not violate employee’s privacy by accessing personal laptop – from Internet Cases
HR & Employee Relations
- On WWE and Organized Labor – from Grantland
- Reasons to Terminate: More Is Not Merrier – from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- The DNA of HR Decisions: Why Documentation is Important – from Michael Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Scratching My Head – from KnowHR Blog
- The “exit parade” as a worker termination protocol – from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace
- Keep Your Employees off the Playground: Preventing and Dealing with Workplace Bullying – from Workplace Insights
- Do You Regularly “Fit Test” Your Employees? – from Ann Bares’s Compensation Force
Wage & Hour
- Ohio Minimum Wage Increase for 1/1/12 – from THRD’s Blog
- DOL/IRS Collaboration Memo Makes For Interesting Reading – from Wage and Hour Laws Blog
- In “Salary Misclassification” Case, Unpaid OT Calculated at Time and a Half Rate, Not FWW – from Overtime Law Blog
- Do Employers Have to Pay for Travel Time? – from Wage & Hour Insights