Like a Spartan soldier raging into battle against the army of the Persian King Xerxes, I have ripped through 300 of these end-of-week compilations. Here’s the original post (Oct. 12, 2007) that started it all, so you can see how far we’ve traveled.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- What Happens in a “He Said/She Said” Case? A Trial — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Discrimination award $27K, attorneys’ fee award nearly $700K — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Undue Hardship in the Financial Sense: A Viable Defense? — from Understanding the ADA
- FACT OR FICTION: Employers may discriminate based on family status — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook
- I Swear It Can Be Harassment: Workplace Profanity — from The Blue Ink
- Court Summarily Dismisses “Familial Status” Claim Under Title VII and the PHRA — from Currents: Hot Topics in Employment Law
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- A Game Changer For Employers: Embracing Mobile As Consumers Have — from TLNT
- Personal devices in the workplace: a recipe for cost savings or disaster? — from Technology for HR
HR & Employee Relations
- Top 9 HR Fails of 2013 — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Does LOVE Work as an Employee Relations Method? — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- When Should An Employer Investigate? — from Workplace Investigations Blog
- Drafting an Employee Sick Leave Policy — from Corporate Counsel
- What rules must we follow if we must lay off work-visa employees? — from Business Management Daily
- Labor and Employment Law in the Vineyards — from Legal Tastings – A Wine Law Blog
- Does your employer own the entire contents of your head? — from Fortune Management & Career Blog
- Protected Status Of Trade Secrets May Be Lost By Not Insisting On Confidentiality — from Trading Secrets
Wage & Hour
- When Do You Have to Pay “Executive” Employees Overtime? — from The Emplawyerologist
- Eleventh Circuit Affirms Employer’s Directed Verdict Based On FLSA Outside Sales Exemption — from Employment Class Action Blog
- Great Expectations: Salesman’s Incompetent Performance Does Not Defeat Exempt Status — from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- A Family and Medical Leave Act for the 21st Century — from DOL’s Work in Progress
SCOTUS
- SCOTUS Ruling on Forum-Selection Clauses Good News for Employers — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- SCOTUS DIGs “most significant labor case in a generation” — from from Phil Miles’ Lawffice Space