Workforce Management is celebrating in 90th anniversary. To commemorate this event (and to cleverly tie-in to March’s favorite non-green event), the magazine is running its own bracket challenge. It is asking its readers to vote on two different brackets — The Pop Culture Bracket (which features such intriguing first round match-ups at Seinfeld vs. Taxi and Murphy Brown vs. Monsters, Inc.) and the Workforce Impact Bracket (which pits the FMLA against the FLSA, Gloria Steinem against Background Checks, and Social Media against ERISA, among others). Voting is being done in stages every two weeks, with round 1 open until April 1.
For the curious:
- In the Pop Culture Bracket, my final four vies The Office vs. Network and The Mary Tyler Moore Show vs. Philadelphia, with The Mary Tyler Moore Show taking down The Office in the finals.
- My Workforce Impact Bracket advances The Internet to face Title VII, and AFL-CIO Teamsters to face Sexual Harassment, with The Internet edging Sexual Harassment in the finals.
How do your brackets play out? Let me know in the comments, or on Twitter @jonhyman.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Distinguishing state & federal disability-accommodation claims — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Iowa sued on charge of subconscious bias — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Why You Need a Retaliation Prevention Policy — from Smart HR Manager
- Why Companies Need to Care about Caregivers: The EEOC's Focus on Caregiver Discrimination — from Employer Defense Law Blog
- Juggling Act: When Work and Special-Needs Parenting Collide — from Diversity Insight
- Title VII protects both current and former employees from discriminatory adverse employment actions — from Employment Law Matters
- Transgender Employees Are Protected from Discrimination — from Employment Law Worldview
- Do you have a gender-based pay gap? If so, you'll have some explaining to do — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Social Media, Social Media, Social Media — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Top Ten Social Media Tips for Businesses — from Meaghan Edelstein at Social Axcess
- Survey Shows 48% of Employers Conduct Social Media Background Checks — from Nick Fishman’s employeescreenIQ Blog
- Why Would You Want An Applicant’s Facebook Password? — from Fistful of Talent
- Quote of the Day: Deletion Is Futile — from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- 3d Circuit Weighs in on Recovering E-Discovery Costs — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Socializing HR — from XpertHR
HR & Employee Relations
- The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs — from Harvard Business Review
- Information Privacy 3: What Are Your Privacy Rights? — from Heather Bussing at the HR Examiner
- Kids These Days: Younger Workers Don’t Care About Confidentiality — from Workplace Diva
- Workplace Drug Testing Turning Up More Cocaine & Amphetamine Positives — from George’s Employment Blawg
- Tips for an Employee Handbook Tune-Up — from Minnesota Employer
- When Should an Employer Investigate? (Part 1) — from Workplace Investigations Blog
- What Should I Know about Terminations? — from Texas Employer Handbook
- Insensitivity & Inflammatory Language at Work — from Cost of Work
Wage & Hour
- Unpaid Internships: No Panacea — from Todd Stanton’s Intown Employer
- Time Off Requests for Exempt and Non-Exempt Employee — from Blogging4Jobs
- District Judge Finds Therapists to be Exempt Professionals — from Wage and Hour Law Update
Labor Relations
- Fired for Wearing Orange — from Workplace Prof Blog
- Workers Fired for Wearing Orange — from San Antonio Employment Law Blog
- Duty To Provide Employee Witness Names And Pro-Union Supervisory Election Interference On This Week’s NLRA Fare — from Labor Relations Update
Until next week…