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Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- When is the Best Time to Try and Settle Employment Litigation? — from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update
- Men Must be Allowed the Same Child Care Leave as Women — from Employer Defense Law Blog
- The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Bipolar Disorder Disability Discrimination Lawsuit — from The Proactive Employer Blog
- Workplace pregnancy discrimination cases on the rise — from The Washington Post
- Anatomy of an EEOC Charge — from Casey Sipe’s The Employer’s Lawyer
- Is Weight Discrimination OK? — from HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Obama Won’t Order Ban on Gay Bias by Employers — from the New York Times
- Women, Money, and Bias: “The Economy Is Classist, Then Racist, Then Sexist” — from The Atlantic
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Is Violation of Employer’s Computer Use Policy a Federal Crime? — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Is Your Smartphone Making You Less Productive? — from Harvard Business Review
- Just One More Game ... Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ — from the New York Times Magazine
- Forget Facebook or Emails, Bosses Booting Employees Over Bandwidth — from FOX8.com
- Bosses’ big fear? That employees will film them — from CNET News
- Employers Aren’t Likely to Ask for Your Facebook Password — from US News and World Report’s On Careers Blog
- What Advice Should Lawyers Give Clients Who Want to Ask Prospective Employees for Their Facebook Passwords? — from Mike Maslanka at the Texas Lawyer
- What to Do When A Potential Employer Asks for Your Facebook Password — from Mashable
- The Spotlight is On Practice of Employers Requesting Access to the Social Media Accounts of Employees and Job Applicants — from Fitzpatrick on Employment Law
- Employer not allowed to search for porn on employee’s home computer — from Internet Cases
HR & Employee Relations
- Backstage Peek: Pixar Animation Studios’ “Cereal Bar” — from the disney food blog
- Dear Evil Skippy: Should I Have Been Warned for Using A T.V. Show’s Name at Work? — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Hire Slow, Fire Fast: Revisted — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Thanks for the Criticism! — from by Jim Brennan at Compensation Cafe
- Got Trade Secrets? — from The Employer’s Lawyer
- The Employee Handbook is Not Your Handbook — from Strategic HR Lawyer
- Stop being the office slob — from Suzanne Lucas at CBS Money Watch
- L.A. Firefighter Arrested For Moonlighting As MMA Brawler While Allegedly On Workman’s Comp — from Deadspin
- Physics in HR – The Petrino Principle — from The HR Introvert
Wage & Hour
- WINNER TAKES ALL: Supreme Court to Determine if Pharma Reps Should Be Classified as “Exempt”… — from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- Rebuild America Act Would Hike Tip Credit, Minimum Wage, Paid Time Off — from TLNT
- Volunteers May Be Entitled to Pay Under the Fair Labor Standards Act — from Randy Enochs’s Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
- Employee Wage Misclassification Should Be Taken Seriously — from Rush Nigut’s Rush on Business
Labor Relations
- The Pros and Cons of Joining a Labor Union — from Fox News
- Three Weeks Until NLRB Posting Rule Takes Effect — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Do Employees Read Break Room Signage Anyway? — from Jessica Miller-Merrell’s Blogging4Jobs
- Union says right-to-work law violates free speech — from Bloomberg Businessweek