Since this is Valentine’s week, I thought I’d share of the best “workplace romance” themed posts I read this week:- Don’t Break Hearts When Drafting Your Company’s Policy for Office Romance — from Workplace Insights
- Sexual Harassment and “Love Contracts” — Office Romance to Paperwork! — from WinWinHR
- Happy Valentine's Day, 70% Of Office Romances Fail — from Workplace Diva
- Managing Workplace Romance...Or Not? — from ERC Insights Blog
- Surprising Findings Revealed in New Survey on Workplace Dating Habits — from EmployerBrief
- Valentine’s Day Lesson: Why Office Relationships Are Self-Destructive — from TLNT
- Office Romances – Is Love in The Air – In-House? — from InhouseBlog
Discrimination
- EEOC Seeks Recommendations for Future Investigations and Conciliations Quality Control Plan — from Washington D.C. Employment Law Update
- Civil Rights Commissioner Takes Exception to EEOC Background Check Rules — from Nick Fishman at employeescreenIQ Blog
- The EEOC on Lesbian/Gay Employees and Sex Discrimination — from Workplace Prof Blog
- Internet-prompted firings: Are they lose-lose for employers? — from Technology for HR
- 8 Tips to Prevent a Social Media Meltdown — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Why You Can't Delete Your Way Out of Your Social Media Mess — from Employer Law Report
- Damning E-mails: Can We Talk? — from The D & O Diary
- HARASSED: Why You Need to Add These Text Exchanges to Whatever Harassment Training You Do — from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- Implementing a dog-friendly workplace policy — from Employment Law Bits
- Does the Pope Get Severance Pay? — from Blogging4Jobs
- Your New Dress Code Policy Should Include a “No Side Boob” Clause — from KnowHR Blog
- Going Gaga over the Not-So-Little Overtime Monster — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Swag bag message to NY Fashion Week attendees: “Pay Your Interns” — from Minding the Workplace
- 20 Years After FMLA, What's Changed and What Hasn't? — from Harvard Business Review
- Toasting 20 Years of FMLA — from SHRM Blog
- New FMLA Regulations Effective Now — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Maternity, paternity leave and ‘sensitive situation’ bring up FMLA questions — from HR Hero Line
- Keep an eye out for a new paid-sick-leave bill in Congress — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Connecticut’s Paid Sick Leave (PSL) Law: Does It Work? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- President Obama Re-nominates Block and Griffin to the NLRB — from Labor Relations Today
- If At First You Don’t Succeed… — from LaborPains