WIRTW #308a (the “big block of cheese” edition)

Tomorrow marks the 177th anniversary of President Andrew Jackson opening the White House doors to the public to share his 1,400 pound block of cheese. You read that correctly. The President of the United States, (1) owned a 1,400 block of cheese; (2) which he kept in the White House; (3) the doors of which he opened to 10,000 Washingtonians; (4) who took all of two hours to devour it whole. Mental Floss has the entire story, which includes Old Hickory’s apparent love of all things cheddar.

Try to wrap your 2014 brain around that.

Here’s the rest of what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Scales (Of Justice) Tip In Favor Of Employer On Overweight Employee’s ADA Claims — from The Employment Brief
• Gender-Neutral Employee Called “Miss” and “Lady” Files Lawsuit — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
• What Can the ADA Do For You? Court “Delivers” Blow To UPS By Allowing EEOC’s Challenge To Its Leave Policy — from EEOC Year-End Countdown
• Prompt Handling Of Sex Harassment Complaint Keeps Safeway Safe — from The Employment Brief
• Does the EEOC Try To Intimidate Employers? — from Employment Discrimination Report
• She Looks Nice... Let’s Hire Her! — from Compensation Café
• 8th Circuit Holds "Stressed Out" Employee's Disability Discrimination Claims Fail When Nature of Job — from Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
• What’s a “sex-plus” claim? — from Warren & Associates Blog
• Am I Being Targeted For Layoff Due To My Age? — from Donna Ballman at AOL Jobs

HR & Employee Relations

• Miami Dolphins Investigation Good Example of Well-Done Internal Workplace Investigation — from WinWinHR
• Documents, documents, documents: What to keep, what to shred — from HR Hero Line
• There Were No Mice Available? Testing Noncompetes and Motivation in Settings That Don’t Sound Much Like Employment — from Currents: Hot Topics in Employment Law
• Waffle House Shows Atlanta How to Handle a Snowstorm — from You’re the Boss Blog
• Statistics Say We Should Take Friday Off From Work. All The Fridays, Forever And Ever. — from Upworthy

Wage & Hour

• What Happens At Home When Your Employee Takes FMLA Leave in Vegas? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Chefs and Employment Law: A Valentine’s Day Post — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
• 3 minor leaguers claim Major League Baseball violated the Fair Labor Standards Act — from Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
• Donning and Doffing, Oh My. — from Michigan Employment Law
• Withholding Pay for Employees Who are Absent During Inclement Weather — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
• What does it mean to be salaried? — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• If They’re Not On Your Payroll Do You Still Have to Pay Them Overtime??? — from The Emplawyerologist

Labor Relations

• Non-union employers should pay attention to the NLRB – here’s why — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
• Political Dirty Tricks Thwart Effort to Unionize Tennessee VW Plant — from Chris McKinney’s Texas Employment Law Blog
• Is a “new unionism” emerging in TN? — from The Human Race Horses
• Union THUGs Face the Fuzz — from LaborPains.org
• New NLRB rules coming, protests on the rise — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
• Past Practices: Usually Not an Employer’s Friend — from Matt Austin Labor Law