Little did I know how prescient I was. The Today Show is reporting that the Jewish Museum Berlin has opened a new exhibit that is being called “Jew in the Box”:
To help educate postwar generations, an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Berlin features a Jewish man or woman seated inside a glass box for two hours a day through August to answer visitors’ questions about Jews and Jewish life. The base of the box asks: “Are there still Jews in Germany?” “A lot of our visitors don’t know any Jews and have questions they want to ask,” museum official Tina Luedecke said. “With this exhibition we offer an opportunity for those people to know more about Jews and Jewish life.”
Yes, our country has a problem with discrimination, a lot of which is tied to some deep historical baggage. In other words, we are no different than the rest of the world.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Mutant Discrimination: GINA, Genetics and How Professor Xavier is Breaking the Law — from Law and the Multiverse
- Calling a Co-Worker “Stupid” Not Enough to Prove “Disability”, Court Says — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Fifth Circuit Agrees to Hear Appeal Regarding Same Sex Discrimination — from San Antonio Employment Law Blog
- Bell's Palsy Sufferer Fired Because Employer Believed That She Had A Stroke — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Straight Talk on Harassment from EEOC Regional Attorney, Robert Canino — from Texas Employment Law Blog
- Does Pre-Employment Testing Increase an Employer’s Exposure to Potential Lawsuits? — from The Emplawyerologist
- Minding Discrimination — from HR Examiner
- A Simple, Legal Way to Help Stop Employment Discrimination — from The Atlantic
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Whom Do Social Media Followers Belong to—You, or Your Business? — from Knowledge@Wharton
- FireMe! app outs Twitter users who talk smack about their jobs — from Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- How To Stop Employers Digging Your Digital Dirt — from The Undercover Recruiter
- Social Media Rant by Employer Results in Retaliation Claim Added to Pending Litigation — from Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- BYOD plz — from HR idiot
HR & Employee Relations
- Hostile Environment: Porn in the Workplace – More Often Than We Know — from HR Gazette
- Being an Abusive Boss can get you Fined by OSHA — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Is It Unethical to Not Hire Smokers? — from Freakonomics
- Kim Jong-un in the workplace — from Michigan Employment Law Connection
- Should I Give References After Separation? — from Texas Employer Handbook
- Sometimes a “confidential” label doesn't hold up — from Work Matters
- Does your lawyer have to disclose your non-compete? — from Smooth Transitions
Wage & Hour
- The Dangers of Using Two Different Time Clocks — from Overtime Advisor
- How the Police Are Getting into the FLSA — from Compensation Café
- Pennsylvania Federal Court Decertifies FLSA Off-the-Clock Collective Action Against Citizens Bank — from Wage & Hour Counsel
- Obamacare for Employers in 87 Minutes — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Labor Relations
- Has The NLRB “Jumped The Shark”? — from Employment Essentials
- Court Overturns NLRB; Protects Company's Confidential Financial Information — from The Employment Beat
- Is There a Face-Off Under Way Over NLRB Decisions? — from Human Resource Executive Online