According to a recent survey conducted by TeamViewer, 52 percent of employed Americans plan on working during their summer vacations. While it will be impossible for me to get away from email, I will be taking the week off from writing blog posts.
I’ll see everyone with fresh content on Monday, August 12. In the meantime, however, do not forget that the deadline to submit your nominees for consideration in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 is Friday, August 9.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- An employee who sleeps on the job may still be qualified under the ADA — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- State AGs Warn The EEOC: Your “Misguided” Position On Criminal Background Screens Is “Gross Federal Overreach” — from EEOC Year-End Countdown
- Workers in “The Twilight Zone” — should you offer them harassment training? — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- 5 Sticky Legal Situations Employers Should Avoid — from employeescreenIQ Blog
- Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act Reintroduced in Both Chambers — from Washington D.C. Employment Law Update
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Which Employees Are the Biggest Security Risk? — from Fox Small Business Center
- Most Social Media Users Unaware Posts Can Be Used in Court — from Lawyers.com
- The Perils of Being a Social Media Holdout — from Harvard Business Review
- Recruiting Socially, But Not Allowing Employees to Be Social is a Classic Bait and Switch — from Acacia HR Solutions
- Court Holds That Employer Did Not Have “Possession, Custody or Control” of Text Messages Sent or Received on its Employees' Personal Cell Phones — from Employer Law Report
- BYOD: is personal information visible over corporate networks? — from First Reference Talks
- Manage BYOD Risks with an Effective Mobile Device Policy — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- First Day of Work: An Employment Lawyer’s Perspective of Onboarding — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- An Employment-Law Perspective on the Anthony Weiner Story — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Five Tips for Conducting Lawful Employment Background Checks — from Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- How to Avoid Becoming Part of “No Vacation Nation” — from Lifehacker
- The 5 Things You Need to Communicate During a Layoff — from TLNT
- Improve Your Workplace Documentation Practices: When to Document? Immediately! — from Southwest Florida HR Law & Solutions
- Can I Tape My Employer If I Have Poor Memory? — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
Wage & Hour
- Often Asked - Never Resolved - Who owns my LinkedIn Contacts? — from Smooth Transitions
- Wanted: Fair Wages Mobile App — from InformationWeek
- Does The FMLA Protect a Supervisor’s Right To Defend a Subordinate’s Leave Of Absence? — from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- In Its Most Surprising About-Face To Date, DOL Abandons Administrator's Interpretation and Sides With Employer — from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
Labor Relations
- The NLRB Is Back — from Workplace Prof Blog
- A whopper about fast-food wages — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Fast Food Strikes Catch Fire — from Workplace Fairness
- Your Social Media Policy Can't Be Too Restrictive, Says NLRB — from In House
- The NLRB Could Learn From the Seventh Circuit — from The Employment Brief