Above the Law (c/o the Chicago Sun-Times) reports that Justice Scalia offered the following words of wisdom while speaking to a group of students at the University of Chicago School of Law:
Try to find a practice that enables you to maintain a human existence … time for your family, your church or synagogue, community … boy scouts, little league…. You should look for a place like that. I’m sure they’re still out there. Maybe you have to go to Cleveland.
Readers, introducing the next spokesperson for Positively Cleveland, United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Age Discrimination Suits Jump, But Wins Are Elusive — from NPR’s Morning Edition
- Employee is Not “Substantially Limited” Under the ADA When He is Able to Work a 40-Hour Week But No Overtime — from Employment Matters Blog
- All You Need Is … A Sexual Harassment Complaint — from Dawn Lomer at i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- A Valentine's Day bouquet of sexual harassment cases — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Harassment at Breastaurant. Again. — from Tim Eavenson’s Current Employment
- Plaintiff’s Repeated “I Don't Know” in Depositions Are Claim Killers — from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update
- Hoops, Race and Workplace Stereotypes: Why I’m Ordering a Jeremy Lin T-Shirt Today… — from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- New Approaches to Understand Why Women Earn Less — from Stephanie Thomas’s Proactive Employer Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Are Your Employees Committing Thought Crimes? — from Frank Roche’s KnowHR Blog
- Tracking Employees By GPS: Better Have a Good Policy — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- I’m unPinterested — from Tim Sackett at Fistful of Talent
- Protecting Trade Secrets and Confidential Information In The Social Media Generation — from Trading Secrets
- Teacher “Hates” Students on Facebook, Lies, Jokes About Child's Death - Reinstated! — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- What The Internet Knows About You And How To Protect Yourself — from Forbes
HR & Employee Relations
- 26 Years on the Job and Not One Sick Day — from the Wall Street Journal
- Hi boss — I’m too bored … er, sick … to come in fr— from om Today Money
- Rogue Employee of the Week – The case of the lunchtime drunk — from damnedif
- Nepotism Is Not Illegal — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Suck it, Cupid. You don’t work here! — from Michael VanDervort’s The Human Race Horses
- No-Hire Tobacco Policies: Why They Are a Communication and Cultural Challenge — from TLNT
- The Four Questions to Ask Before Changing to PTO — from HR Daily Advisor
- Would you get a divorce in order to telecommute? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Working from Home More Important than Showering & Spouses — from Jessica Miller-Merrell’s Blogging4Jobs
- 10 Things Bosses Never Tell Employees — from Inc.com
Wage & Hour
- Annals of wage and hour law — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- DOL Proposes Significant Changes to the Home Health Care Industry — from BLEG Blog
- Federal Judge Enjoins Alleged Retaliatory Group Termination of Warehouse Workers — from Wage and Hour Law Update
- “Linsanity” for Employers to Fail to Post Required Notices — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- New FMLA Certification Forms Available from DOL — from Smart HR Manager
- The wrong way and the right way to request FMLA certification — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
Until next week: