On Monday, I’ll be in Dayton, Ohio, at the LexisNexis campus, recording two video CLEs for its corporate legal curriculum:
- It’s Five O’Clock; Do You Know What Your Employees are Saying About You? — discussing my favorite topic, social media in the workplace
- Legal Issues in Labor and Employment: Leaves of Absence — discussing the various laws the require employers to grant leaves of absence to employees (FMLA, ADA, USERRA, and Title VII)
I will share clips with you after Lexis provides them to me. I’m also coming home with a cool video biography that I’ll be adding to the “About Me” section above.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- The EEOC Strategic Enforcement Plan Infographic — from Stephanie R. Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- Wal-Mart Settles EEOC Lawsuit on Refusal to Return Employee to Work Without Full Release — from Employer's Law Blog
- Another Case Involving Associational Discrimination and Employee Caregivers — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Rising Caregiver Responsibilities Fuel Push for Extra Worker Protections — from Dan Cafaro at Smart HR Manager
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Five Years Later, The Biggest Impact on Employment Law Is… — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Infographic: The biggest reason employees waste time at work — from Ragan.com
- More than half of all mobile subscribers in the U.S. own a smartphone — from Boy Genius Report
- Help - My employee spends all their time playing Fantasy Football — from Rob Radcliff’s Smooth Transitions
- Do You Know Who is Using Your Email at Work? — from Blogging4Jobs
- Employee privacy: How to avoid invading it — from HR Cafe
- Everything’s amazing, nothing’s perfect: exploring the limits of consumer technology — from The Verge
HR & Employee Relations
- Are Pretty People Better Employees? — from Fistful of Talent
- Civility in the Workplace: Can We Remember the Lessons from 9/11? — from TLNT
- Effort in harassment investigations is IMPORTANT — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Your employees’ freedom of speech — from WorkFace
- How to Work with Legal — from HR Examiner
- One word on political discussions at work: Shhh — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
Wage & Hour
- Is “casual conversation” of a parent's health enough to trigger FMLA? — from The Employer Handbook Blog
- Intermittent Leave—Handling Nine Tricky Aspects — from HR Daily Advisor
- The Rise of the New Contract Worker — from Harvard Business Review
Labor Relations
- Sticks ‘n Stones May Break Your Bones, But Workers Can Defame You — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Lookout Corner – unions@yourcompany.com? — from HR idiot
- “NLRB Goes Back to the ‘80s To Justify A Union-Notice Rule” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered