On Wednesday’s edition of DriveThruHR, Dan Schwartz challenged me to a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors to determine, once and for all, who reigns supreme in the world of employment law blogging. Dan, you’re on (and you’re going down). Just let me know when.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Fired and told “your a little too old for your job,” Old Rose LOSES her age-bias claim — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- A Refresher Course For Employers On Retaliation — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Should Smokers be a Protected Category? — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Is It Religious Harassment To Hand Out Chocolate — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Can I Be Fired for Being Gay? — from Blogging4Jobs
- Five snips on workplace harassment (plus a bonus) — from Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Should You Fire Employees Who Use (or Misuse, However Defined) Social Media? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- What’s your opinion of BYOD privacy? — from Consumerization Blog RSS
- Coping With the Rising Mobile Workforce and the BYOD Culture — from TLNT
- Internet and Email Use in the Workplace — from ERC Insights Blog
- The Duty To Preserve Social Media Information — from Social Media Employment Law Blog
- Employees who use social media are more efficient, survey says — from Ragan.com
- Law and Order: Human Resources Unit – LinkedIn Lockout — from HR Idiot
HR & Employee Relations
- Employee Theft Blacklist: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — from Nolo’s Employment Law Blog
- Think Your Company’s Confidential Information is Safe? Think Again! — from HR Defense Blog
- Ethical failure at Rutgers: Abusive coach, bad management, questionable lawyering — from Minding the Workplace
- Cease and Desist Letters: Defamation May Not Be An Issue But Watch Out for Tortious Interference — from Trade Secret Litigator Blog
Wage & Hour
- The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- High-Tech Employers Dodge Class Certification In Anti-Solicitation Antitrust Case — from Workplace Class Action Litigation
- What Happened, Dude?: Overtime Hours, Working Time, and Tracking Apps — from The Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Labor Relations
- Quorum, Heck a Fully Appointed NLRB? — from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer
- Obama Re-Nominates Pearce, Names Two Others to Fill Republican NLRB — from Labor Relations Counsel
- White House to Nominate Three NLRB Members — from Workplace Prof Blog