I’ve never used this space to ask anyone to donate to anything. This week is an exception.
My niece had a scare. After months of knee pain, doctors found a 6 cm mass on her tibia. We feared the worst. After Wednesday’s surgery we received the best possible news—a benign giant cell tumor that had eaten away her leg until her tibia resembled Swiss cheese. She is on the road to recovery, which includes long and difficult rehab coupled with the risk that her repaired and rebuilt leg could fail.
She also faces crippling out-of-pocket medical expenses that will saddle her family for years, which includes my 1- and 2-year-old great-nieces, and her husband, a veterinary resident who’s taken an unpaid leave of absence to be with his family.
If you want to read the entire story, jump over to EncouragingErin.com, a blog/donation site we established to help my niece and her family. All help, thoughts, and words of encouragement are appreciated. Thanks for reading.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- “Race-based claims thrown out in Paula Deen lawsuit” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- How The EEOC’S Scrutiny Of Background Check Practices Has Employers Between A Rock & A Hard Place — from Employment Essentials
- Interactive Process is Two-Way Street — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- The EEOC Is Now Officially An Employee Side Employment Law Firm — from The Labor and Employment Law Blog
- NFL player’s racist comment sparks debate — from John Phillips at HR Hero Line (welcome back old friend)
- Go Figure: The EEOC Clears Itself on Discrimination Charges — from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- Are EEOC Guidelines for Employment Background Checks Still Confusing? — from employeescreenIQ Blog
- When it comes to ADA accommodations, reasonable is good enough — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Kansas Court Mitigates the Risks of a BYOD Workforce — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Online in 60 seconds — from SocialFish
- 72% of Adults Online (Your Employees) Use Social Networking Sites — from EmployerBrief
- Legal implication for employers when employees download apps on work devices — from Employment Law Bits
- More than a third of Americans use Facebook every day — from The Verge
- HR: Corporate America’s social media cops — from Business Management Daily
HR & Employee Relations
- An Employee Says She's Being Sexually Harrassed. Now What? — from The Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas, writing at Inc.com
- Who Should Conduct Your Workplace Investigation and Why Does it Matter? — from The Emplawyerologist
- Is it Harassment or Just Questionable Behavior in the Workplace? — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- Most Embarrassing Termination Ever — from The Tim Sackett Project
- “Hell or High Water” or Fraud: Court Rules That Supermarket Scion Was Entitled To Post-Termination Benefits Despite Misconduct — from Suits by Suits
- How to Bust the Most Common Age-Related Stereotypes at Work — from Lifehacker
- Are you prepared for very old workers? — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Working Fathers Need Balance, Too — from Harvard Business Review
- The One Sentence HR Handbook — from Fistful of Talent
- Have you taken a personality test for a job or any other reason? If so, was it a useful tool? — from ABA Journal Daily News
Wage & Hour
- Take 2: Does Annual FMLA Certification First Require an Employee's Absence? — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- DOL Recognizes Same Sex Marriage for FMLA — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Independent contractor’s email was key factor in finding he had apparent authority to bind principal — from Internet Cases
Labor Relations
- Text “FRONTGROUP” to … — from LaborPains.org
- Members-Only Collective Bargaining: Get Ready for an Old Concept for a New Use — from Ross Runkel Report
- NLRB Judge Says Employer’s Baseball Cap Logo Restriction Violates Employees’ Section 7 Rights — from Labor & Collective Bargaining