Earlier this week, I appeared on Huffington Post Live, in a segment discussing discrimination laws, at-will employment, and the rights of employers to terminate employees. If you missed it live, here’s your chance to see me live and in Internet-buffered color:
Also, if you missed this month’s Employment Law Blog Carnival, hosted by Robin Shea, it is worth a trip down Route 66 to read the best employment-law posts from the past month.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Roadmap for Responding to an Employee’s Request for Religious Accommodation — from Employment Law Lookout
- What Do You Mean I Can’t Ask That Question????!!!! — from The Emplawyerologist
- Boss fired breast-feeding mother: Was it pregnancy discrimination? — from HR Café
- Dear Evil Skippy: Was It Harassment For My Supervisor To Give Me A Massage? — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Court Resists “Irresistible” Employee’s Lawsuit... Again — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Beware the Dark Side: “But For” Doesn’t Mean “Sole Cause” In Retaliation Claims — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- What Exactly Does Vance v. Ball State University Mean to Employers? — from Employment & the Law
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- How 3 NFL players’ mea culpa will improve your social media policy — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud — from Harvard Business Review
- What Are Your Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Privacy? — from The Sociable Lawyer Blog
- Security is Key to “BYOD” Policies — from Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Law Blog
- BYOD: Do You Feel Lucky? Well, Do Ya Punk? — from Ride The Lightning
- Employers, Facebook, and the SCA Do Not a Love Triangle Make — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Service of Process Via Social Media – a Comparative Approach — from Augmented Legality
- What happens to your smartphone after it’s stolen — from The Verge
- Electronic media use policies must be applied evenly and consistently — from EmployerLINC
HR & Employee Relations
- Top Ten Things to Consider When Drafting A Non-Compete Agreement — from Trade Secrets & Non-Compete Blog
- Would You Hire Someone With a Visible Tattoo? — from hr bartender
Wage & Hour
- When using temps, make sure temp agency retains control of employment relationship — from Business Management Daily
- Why Interns Are Suing ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Hollywood, and Other Dream Employers — from Businessweek
- Sixteen Types of Wage & Hour Records Employers Need to Keep — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Labor Relations
- NLRB General Counsel Keeps Unfriending Employer Social Media Policies — from Employment Law Watch
- “Nuclear Option” Averted (For Now), NLRB Likely To Reach Full Strength Soon — from Labor Relations Institute
- NLRB Truth: 10 Reasons Why the National Labor Relations Board Matters — from Workplace Fairness