I’m not going to lie; it’s nice when an organization recognizes my blog. The ABA Journal has honored me for the last three years by including me in its preeminent list of lawyer blogs, the Blawg 100. LexisNexis has also honored this blog, as have several others.
With that, I want to say thank you to Paralegal 411, which has compiled its own list of the Top 25 Employment Law Blogs, based on “website popularity metrics including the number of websites linking to them, Google Page Rank, website authority, and Twitter followers.” I came in at number 7. The other 24, many of whom are friends, are worth your time checking out.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Association Is Not A Protected Category or Is It? — from Blogging4Jobs
- Not Without Warning: The EEOC Continues To File Barrages Of Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuits — from EEOC Year-End Countdown
- Does the ADA mandate transfer preferences for disabled employees? — from Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- Is body odor a real disability? — from Business Management Daily
- Parties Petition SCOTUS to Hear Corporate Free Exercise Issue — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- What??? Even Informal, Oral Complaints Can Support an Employee’s Retaliation Claim??!! — from The Emplawyerologist
- Does Paramour Favoritism Constitute Discrimination? — from Minnesota Employer
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Why Employers Should Love, Not Loathe, Social Media — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- “Liking” on Facebook – The Internet Equivalent of a Yard Sign — from netWORKed Lawyers
- Step Right Up to the Paperless Law Office — from Attorney at Work
- Building a Secure Corporate Culture from the Top Down — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- Dear Evil Skippy: Should I Hire The Cocktail Waitress? — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Should I Give a Bad Coworker a Reference? — from Lifehacker
- Mr. Forthright’s Tips On How To Pretend To Work At Work — from The Huffington Post
- The 3 Common Hiring Practices That Are Completely and Totally Wrong — from TLNT
- A Background Check is More Than a Price Tag: 3 Methods for Valuable Criminal Background Checks — from employeescreenIQ Blog
Wage & Hour
- Holiday pay - five things you should know when calculating holiday pay — from Employment Law Watch
- DOL Issues ERISA Guidance on Same-Sex Marriage; Is FMLA Guidance Next? — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- Law firms need not pay student interns for pro bono work — from Ross Runkel Report
- FMLA Certifications: What Do With an Incomplete or Insufficient Certification — from Employer Defense Law Blog
Labor Relations
- NLRAA (the extra A stands for app) — from HR idiot
- “Minority Unionism” Targets Employee Rights — from LaborPains.org
- Authorization Cards are Awfully Tricky — from Matt Austin Labor Law
- HR: Be sure your dress codes don’t violate the NLRA — from Warren & Associates Blog