Yesterday, my friend Dan Schwartz (an A+ employment law blogger) published his (Not So) Definitive Top 10 List of Employment Lawyers To Follow Online (in response to another list published by the HR Examiner). Needless to say, I want to thank Dan for featuring me so prominently on his list. Thanks also to Molly DiBianca (another A+ employment law blogger) and Heather Bussing (writing at HR Examiner), who both had some very kind words to say about yours truly on their blogs in the last 24 hours.
If I was acting as curator of a list such as Dan’s, the only change I’d make is to swap Dan’s name for mine. You cannot go wrong reading the content of anyone he lists, and I’m proud to have all as colleagues and friends. If you are not following each of the employment lawyers recommended by Dan, you are missing out.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC settles complaint over heavy equipment operator with epilepsy — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Ignoring complaints about air conditioning could subject a business to a discrimination claim — from Employment Law Bits
- EEOC Sends Confusing Signal to Employers — from Hiring & Firing
- It’s tough to prove age bias after getting caught sleeping on the job — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Huh? EEOC’s now searching for cases of ‘beauty bias’? — from HR Morning
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- BYOD policies jacking up companies’ IT costs — from Boy Genius Report
- Know when to leverage BYOD and when to forget it — from Consumerization Blog
- Cool Things: Deron Williams Signing His New Contract on an iPad — from iPad Insight
- 6 Personal Secrets Your Facebook Profile Isn’t Keeping — from Mashable
- PA Judge Provides Social Media Discovery Rundown — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Reading a non-friend’s comment on Facebook wall was not a privacy invasion — from Internet Cases
- Should HR Have Facebook Friends at Work — from hr bartender
- Is Social Media the NEW Smoke Break? — from The Buzz on HR
- Did Glassdoor’s Integration With Facebook Make Your Coworkers’ “Anonymous” Salaries Less Anonymous? — from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts
HR & Employee Relations
- Is Your Boss a Bert or an Ernie? — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Chicken and stitches — from Charlie Plumb’s EmployerLINC
- Why You Should Send Out Rejection Letters — from Above the Law
- HR Lessons from Higgs Boson — from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- Are flexible schedules a blessing or a curse? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Pros and Cons of Suing the Ex-Employee’s New Employer — from Delaware Non-Compete Law Blog
- Penn State Adopts New Policy on Employee Background Checks — from Nick Fishman’s employeescreenIQ Blog
- How to Conduct Fair and Unbiased Investigation Interviews — from Dawn Lomer’s i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
Wage & Hour
- Supervisor’s Comments After Employee Seeks Leave for Hysterectomy Creates Viable FMLA Claims — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- Be careful what you ask for: retaliatory counterclaims under the FMLA — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
- How to Reduce the Salary of Exempt Level Employees — from Mike Haberman at Blogging4Jobs
- Courts Split over FLSA Damages for Emotional Distress — from Smart HR Manager
- Hiring Kids — from Texas Employer Handbook
Labor Relations
- Is It Time We Finally Part Ways With the National Labor Relations Act? — from TLNT
- Independence Day Incrementalism: NLRB (Again) Expands On Precedent By Ruling Employer Off-Duty Access Rule Unlawful — from Labor Relations Update
- NLRB Finds Union Waiver in Two Recent Decisions, Including the Closely-Watched Hospital Flu Shot Case — from Healthcare Employment Counsel