Did you catch my appearance on DriveThruHR yesterday? You mean you weren’t glued to your computer at 1 pm, hanging on my every word about HR, employment law, social media, background checks, the EEOC, and the NLRB? I’ll put aside my offense, and offer you a second chance to hear my musings.
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Thanks to William Tincup and Bryan Wempen for having me on. Let’s do it again soon.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Conn. Supreme Court Rejects $10M Verdict; Insubordination is Not Protected Speech — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Hostility At Work Is Expensive (And Wrong) — from Troutman Sanders HR Law Matters
- Do we need another pregnancy bias law, or just a bigger hammer? — from CareerDiva, Eve Tahmincioglu
- How Employee Performance Reviews Can Help or Hurt an Employment Discrimination Claim — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Law and Order: Human Resources Unit — from HR idiot
- FMLA leave meets ADA “reasonable accommodation” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Joint Evaluations Reduce Implicit Bias — from Stephanie Thomas at Compensation Cafe
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Tips for Protecting Social Media Information as Trade Secrets — from Ethan Wall’s Social Media Law & Order
- Who Does Your LinkedIn Profile Belong To? — from Fistful of Talent
- How to Use Twitter to Find Niche Candidates — from Kara Mignanelli’s Social Media Strategies Summit Blog
- Password Protection Act to prohibit employers from gaining access to Facebook accounts — from The Verge
- Why We Need A “Password Protection Act” Against Employers — from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
- Social Media: Useful Tool or Employment Pitfall? — from CPEhr
- April Fools’ Day Prank Leads To Trade Secrets Litigation — from Trading Secrets
HR & Employee Relations
- Waaah: United States Ranks 25th For Being A Mom — from Workplace Diva
- The Value of Returning Moms to your Workforce — from The Tim Sackett Project
- President Obama supports same sex marriage; what does this mean for HR? — from Warren & Associates Blog
- The Nine C’s of Engagement and Why EVERYTHING is Communication — from Ann Bares’s Compensation Force
- Welcome to Apple — from TiPb
- Can Employers Ask For Applicants’ W-2 or Tax Returns? — from California Employment Law Report
- Does Résumé “Lying” Really Matter if You Can Perform? — from Mike Haberman’s HR Observation’s Blog
- A Lie-Detector Test for Resumes — from Entrepreneur
- What “The Avengers” can teach you about the workplace — from The Work Buzz
- Checking In with Employees (Versus Checking Up) — from Harvard Business Review
Wage & Hour
- Dewey Have Any WARN Act Liability? Let’s Discuss — from Above the Law
- Seventh Circuit Surprise: Appeals Court Finds Pharma Reps Exempt Under Administrative Exemption Without Waiting for Supreme Court — from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- A movement emerges: Will unpaid internships disappear? — from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace
- You Can’t Be Sick Unless You’re Pre-Sick — from Frank Roche’s KnowHR Blog
- You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! Firefighter, MMA fighter dealt serious blow — from EmployerLINC
Labor Relations
- How you’ve been screwed – whether you know it or not from Mike VanDervort’s The Human Race Horses
- NLRB’s Plan: Expand labor's influence from Employment Matters Blog
- NLRB: Barring employees from discussing salary is a bad idea from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- The NLRB’s War on “At Will” Disclaimers from The Personnel Files
- Defense Counsel’s Deposition Questions about Employees’ Union Activity Were Unlawful from Labor Relations Counsel