According to the ABA Journal, “balding men who want to advance in their careers might want to consider shaving their heads.” The ABA Journal cites an article in the Wall Street Journal discussing a recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, which concluded, “Men with shaved heads are perceived to be more masculine, dominant and, in some cases, to have greater leadership potential than those with longer locks or with thinning hair.”
Hot damn! I love being masculine and dominant, with great leadership potential.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Religious Frustration — from Smelling Some Roses
- Believe it or Not – White Male Proves Discrimination — from Texas Employer Handbook
- The Four Corners Of An EEOC Charge Can Make All The Difference In A Nationwide Employment Discrimination Class Action — from Workplace Class Action Litigation
- Nooses And The “N Word” Are In The Employment News These Days — from Employment Discrimination Report
- $$$ reasons to have a second-language anti-harassment policy — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- A Bill to Make Employers Less Mean to Pregnant Women — from Workplace Fairness
- No, Seriously - EEOC Targeting Pregnancy Discrimination — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- 10th Circuit Finds Transferring Disabled Employee to Different Geographical Location for Better Access to Medical Care is Reasonable Accommodation — from Randy Enochs’s Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- California’s Comprehensive Social Media Privacy Law — from Social Media, Esq.™
- Survey: 75% of Workers Are Accessing Social Media While on the Job — from TLNT
- Social Media Workplace Freedom a Hot Button for College Students and the NLRB — from Social Media Today
- Instagram surpasses Twitter in daily active mobile users in U.S. — from Boy Genius Report
- One billion people now “actively using” Facebook — from The Verge
HR & Employee Relations
- Fighting Back: Bullies and Obesity — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- The Benefits of Criminal Background Screening for Your Company — from From the Sidebar
- Survey Says … 50% of Employers Have Hired People with Criminal Records — from Nick Fishman’s employeescreenIQ Blog
- Checking Your Background Check: Is Your Authorization in Compliance with the FCRA? — from LE Blog
- Here’s Your New Motivational Script to Use When Firing Someone — Or to Those Who Dare Fire You … — from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- 6 Tips to Lower Risk in High-Risk Employee Terminations — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- Workplace Investigation Tip: Outside Investigators are not Tainted by Internal Politics — from Strategic HR Lawyer
- The 3 best ways to stop employee rumors — from Ragan.com
- Laughter in the Workplace Increases Productivity and Job Satisfaction — from Workplace Insights
- Trade Secret Misappropriation - $taggering Numbers For Employers to Consider — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Wage & Hour
- Six Steps to Having an Unpaid Intern — from Blogging4Jobs
- ABCs of the ACA for Employers — from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- Take Care When Applying the Outside Sales Exemption — from HR Defense Blog
- Employer Burned for Failing to Return Employee to Equivalent Position After FMLA Ended — from Jeff Nowak’s LA Insights
Labor Relations
- NLRB Keeps Doing What It Always Does. Why Is Anyone Surprised? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- The NLRB Condones Sexual Harassment — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Employee Flare: I Will Have a Venti, Half-Caf., Cappuccino - Hold the Union Propaganda — from The Labor and Employment Law Blog