Today’s theme is a lesson in minimalism.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Fired For Reporting Dollar Bill With Swastikas And Noose On A “Blackened” George Washington Leads To Jury Award — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Do Managers Have a Bias For Hiring Attractive People? — from TLNT
- Employee claims discrimination, then her friend gets fired. Is that retaliation? — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- An Employee Took Documents from her Employer to Support her Discrimination Claim and You Won’t Believe what Happened Next — from Toil and Trouble
- If men and women work the same number of hours, what is so unfair? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- EEOC Seeks Reversal of “Cherry Picked” Decision Regarding Criminal and Credit Checks — from All in a Day’s Work
- Employee acts as own lawyer? You’ll need to be patient — from Business Management Daily
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Pass Along to Your Employees: Passwords to Avoid — from HR Daily Advisor
- She “tweeted” what?! — from EmployerLINC
HR & Employee Relations
- Are You One Cold (Or Super Bowl Flu) Away From Being Fired? — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Dazed and Confused About Medical Marijuana in the Workplace? Dude, It’s Just Starting — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- “But I’m a Whistleblower!”: Is an Employee Who Takes Confidential Documents Invincible? — from Trading Secrets
- Terminating an “At-Will” Employee: A Free Ride or Potential Time Bomb? — from CPEhr
- Why we need to take more time off from work — from Ragan.com
- my boss seems annoyed when I stay home every time it snows — from Ask a Manager
- Workplace Investigations — Dealing with the Aftermath — from WinWinHR
Wage & Hour
- Read this if you don’t want to overpay your salaried employees — from HR idiot
- Paid Sick Leave: Is it Worth it to Businesses? — from WSJ.com Law Blog
- FLSA Exemptions are about DUTIES not Titles — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- A refresher on the breastfeeding at work rules — from Warren & Associates Blog
Labor Relations
- Super Bowl Ad Calls for Employee Rights Against Union Abuse — from LaborPains.org
- College Athletes to Unionize? More on the Northwestern University Football Players NLRB Petition — from Labor Relations Today
- They’re Ba-ack: NRLB to Re-Propose Election Regulations — from Labor Relations Update
- NLRB Proposes Amendments to Election Rules — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Breaking: #NLRB posts new quickie election rules — from The Human Race Horses
- NLRB Proposed New/Old Election Rules — from Workplace Prof Blog