WIRTW #210 (the “organizing my life” edition)

I live in a constant search for the perfect task organizer/to-do list. For the past several months, I’ve been using Toodledo, which is robust, but overly complex for my needs. But, I’ve stuck with it because I can use it across all of my platforms (the PC in my office, my Mac at home, my Android phone, and my iPad—this is what life has become in 2012). Toodledo, however, is about to get kicked to the curb. Welcome to my life, Any.do. Where Toodledo is complex, Any.do is elegant in its simplicity, allowing you to add tasks to complete today, tomorrow, this week, or next week, drag and drop tasks between days, set priorities, reminders, folders, notes, and automatically sync to your contact list for emails and phone calls. Right now, it’s only available on Android, but the developer promises an iPhone app is on the horizon, as is a web app. Once the web app is released, I will say toodles to Toodledo.

Here’s the rest of what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Fired for Wearing a Fake Penis? — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
• “Religious employers must cover pill, Feds say” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
• Company's “100% healed” policy does not create per se disability discrimination — from Employment Law Matters
• Employee Suffering from IBS Allowed to Proceed with Retaliation Claim — from SmartHR
• Discrimination Claims At EEOC Hit Record Level — from Laconic Law Blog
• Can you be fired if your dad had cancer? — from CareerDiva, Eve Tahmincioglu

Social Media & Workplace Technology

• #McDStories: When A Hashtag Becomes A Bashtag — from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
• Is It Legal for an Employer to Secretly Track an Employee’s Personal Vehicle 24/7 for One Month? Perhaps! — from Workplace Privacy Counsel
• What Employers Should Know about the Supreme Court’s Decision Concerning GPS Privacy Rights — from Minnesota Employer
• The Small Business Social Media Cheat Sheet — from Flowtown
• Married to Your Business Twitter or Facebook Account? Think Before You Say, “I sue” — from Social Media Today
• Teachers warned over befriending pupils on Facebook — from The Guardian

HR & Employee Relations

• That Comment Bubble Could Get You In Trouble — from Stephanie Thomas at Compensation Cafe
• Super Bowl Office Pools in Connecticut – What Box Are You In? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Why HR Professionals Should Never Rely on “the Law” as the Source of Their Power — from Strategic HR Lawyer
• Can you be fired for skipping lunch? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Real World, Real Life: Why Your Kids Need a Good Work Ethic — from TLNT
• “No-poach” emails between Apple, Adobe, and Pixar revealed in court documents — from The Verge
• Don’t Send Me Your Kid and Expect Me to Fix The Big Problems… — from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn

Wage & Hour

• OFF-CLOCK WORK: “Flintstone” laws in a “Buck Rogers” world — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
• Three Times Employees Must be Paid Not to Work — from Reuters
• Certification of Call Center Class Given the Boot — from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
• Never Ever Retaliate — from Manpower Employment Blawg
• Taking Note of How Family and Medical Leave Act Interference Claims to be Decided — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
• Fact or Fiction: If you don't say “FMLA”, you can’t take FMLA leave? — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog

Labor Relations

• Can a Neutrality Agreement be an “Improper Payment” to a Union? — from Labor Relations Update
• IKEA Workers In Maryland Vote To Unionize — from The Huffington Post
• More Lockouts as Companies Battle Unions — from Steven Greenhouse at the New York Times