One of the benefits of hitting the road to speak as much as I do is all of the great people I meet. One of those people is Jessica Miller-Merrell, who authors the fabulous HR blog, Blogging4Jobs. On February 21 I, along with Mike VanDervort (author of The Human Race Horses) will guest on a free webinar Jessica is presenting, Understanding Unions, NLRB, & Corporate Social Media:
This session provides a broad overview for senior business leaders (and not just HR) regarding the recent legislation surrounding social media, the NLRB, and strategies for how company leaders can maneuver and monitor employee activity on social networking sites. Learn best practices how to manage and discipline your employees, create policies, and awareness throughout your organization.
I’ll be addressing the NLRB’s latest attempts to regulate employer restrictions on employees’ use of social media, in and out of the workplace. The webinar will run from 12:00 to 1:30 pm on February 21, and registration is free.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Refusal to Rescind Resignation is Not an Adverse Employment Action — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Attractiveness A (Dis)Advantage In The Workplace? — from The Proactive Employer Blog
- 10th Circuit Holds Migraines Not a Disability Under the ADA — from Randy Enochs’s Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
- Disparate Impact – Why Mobile Matters — from Heather Bussing at HR Examiner
- The changing definition of a covered disability — from Work Matters
- An Employer’s Playbook for Responding to an Allegation of Sexual Harassment — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Retaliation Redux: Two cases that should scare employers a lot — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- The first question the EEOC asks — from Warren & Associates Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Facebook addiction explained: study shows psychophysiological arousal from social media — from Boy Genius Report
- GSMI’s Social Media White Paper Now Available — from Social Axcess
- The so-called “privacy” of employee emails — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- BYOD in the Modern Workplace — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- Privacy Advice Potpourri: Don’t Lose Your iPhone, Don’t Consider Anything On Your Work Computer Private, and Do Wonder About Mysterious ‘Dings’ On Your Conference Call — from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- Pinterest accused of replacing external affiliate links with its own — from The Verge
HR & Employee Relations
- Workplace Investigation Pitfall: Failure to Take the Complaint Seriously — from Strategic HR Lawyer
- Home Alone, Telecommuting, and Man’s Best Friend — from Fitzpatrick on Employment Law
- Should I rat out my boss? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Keeping Everyone Safe in the Workplace — from Robin Schooling’s HR Schoolhouse
- Do You Love Love Contracts? — from Mark Toth’s Manpower Employment Blawg
- Nepotism Is Not Illegal — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
Wage & Hour
- (FMLA) Form Over Function — from Delaware Employment Law Blog
- 4th Circuit: FLSA Prohibits Retaliation For Internal Complaints — from Wage & Hour Insights
- When Is An “Intern” An Employee Under The FLSA? — from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Overtime for Nannies — from Jim Brennan at Compensation Cafe
- The Danger of Unpaid Interns — from Overtime Advisor
Labor Relations
- The Fallout from the Latest NLRB Salvo on Social Media — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Labor Relations Board File Competing Summary Judgment Motions in “Quickie” Election Rule Case — from Seth Borden’s Labor Relations Today
- New “Right-to-Work” Law- A Test for Union Clout? — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions