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Dan, hopefully you don’t mind that I cribbed your photo.
As an aside, if you find yourself near Union Square in San Francisco, I recommend Café Claude. Great classically French meal, only outdone by the company. Your mileage may vary on the latter.
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Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC Cracking Down on Discrimination of Arab and Muslim Workers — from Hiring & Firing
- The Never-Ending Employment Law Case and the Hour-Long Commute — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Workplace Discrimination Against Pregnant Women Now Being Targeted By The EEOC — from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- Appeals Court Slams Trial Judge For Not Issuing Injunction Against Egregious Sexual Harasser — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Can Employers Discriminate Against You Because You're Unemployed? Absolutely — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Court Dismisses Bachelor Discrimination Suit — from TVLine
- Asperger’s Syndrome in the Workplace — from Workplace Insights
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Take Your Life Back — from Harvard Business Review
- Six Principles for Reputation Management in a Transparent World — from Social Media Today
- “The Problem with the Internet Is That Nothing Is Temporary” — from Lifehacker
- Fired for “Liking”—Social Media Use at Your Job — from From the Sidebar
- Social Media and Employment: My Name, My Picture, My Info - Why Not My Account!? — from Outten & Golden Employment Law Blog
- An Eye-Opening Termination Of A Former Lingerie Model — from Social Media Employment Law Blog
- Fired for WHAT!? - Jailbait and Creepshots — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- NY Times social media policy a good model for law firms — from Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs
- Dear Evil Skippy: What’s The Best Way To Enforce Computer-Use Rules? — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Privacy and Porn on Workplace Computers — from Employment & Human Rights Law In Canada
HR & Employee Relations
- As the Election Nears, Employers Should be Cautious of Politics in the Workplace — from Stoel Rives World of Employment
- Politics at Work: Employer Dos, Don'ts, and Be Very, Very Carefuls — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- An HR Lesson from the Presidential Debate — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Employment-at-Will: Walking the Fine Line, Part I and Part II — from The Emplawyerologist
- Ohio Background Screening Law Not Perfect, But Deserves Applause — from Nick Fishman’s employeescreenIQ Blog
- Do you know what your references will say? True quotes from reference checks — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- “Vacation” Rules Around the World — from Compensation Cafe
- Effective Ways to Start and End an Investigatory Interview — from Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
Wage & Hour
- “No Soup for You!” If An Employee Doesn’t Turn in Medical Certification, FMLA Leave is Not Protected — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- What happens in Vegas, becomes an FMLA claim — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- The DOL’s FMLA Forms Do Not Comply with GINA — from Minnesota Employer
- Changing Workweek to Minimize Overtime Is Not “Evasion” of the FLSA — from Wage & Hour Defense Institute
Labor Relations
- Whiskey Bent and Hellbound: The NLRB May Target Employer Email Systems Next — from Todd Sarver’s Employment Essentials
- Five Actions That Non-Union Employers Should Take to Retain Their Union-Free Status in 2013 — from Management Memo
- Unions Promote State Workplace Anti-Bullying Bills — from Washington D.C. Employment Law Update
- NLRB welcomes “micro-unions” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- The Real Reason Walmart’s Social Media Policy Survived and Costco’s Didn’t (Hint: It’s Not “Defamation”) — from Augmented Legality