Meet my new best friend, the very funny Jim Gaffigan, pictured with my other best friend (my wife) and me:
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- 3d Cir. Provides "Temporal Proximity" Retaliation Analysis — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Fines To Increase For Failing To Post Notice Of Anti-Discrimination Rights — from HR Law Matters
- “Egregious” Same Sex Harassment Suit Settled By EEOC For Over $2 Million — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Boss seems to be seeking young “dream team”? Be alert for possible age discrimination — from Business Management Daily
- A post about David Crosby, alcohol, and the ADA — from Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- Message to Employers: Stick to your story — from EmployerLINC
- Depressed employee’s vacation leave request did not qualify for FMLA protection — from Employment Law Matters
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Disgruntled employees mount uprising on Twitter — from Quentin Fottrell at WSJ’s MarketWatch (thanks for the quotes)
- The Founder of Reputation.com Answers Reader Questions — from You’re the Boss Blog
- Mobile content management and BYOD: the Dropbox catch-22 — from Information Age
- Management Monday: Quit Oversharing — from Delaware Employment Law Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- Enforce your dress code without making your employees hate you — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Bill Gates on the Future of Employment (It’s Not Pretty) — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Germany bans managers from calling or emailing staff after work hours — from InhouseBlog.com
- HR and the Art of Nudgery — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- It’s Getting Foggy Out There: In The Haze of E-Cigarette Popularity and Regulation, What’s an Employer To Do? — from Employment Law Lookout
- 9 workplace policies your organization should have — from Ragan.com
Wage & Hour
- A tipping point for Baristas — from The Human Race Horses
- Independent Contractor Compliance: What Employers Need to Consider — from TLNT
- FLSA Revisions Won't be Quick or Easy — from Wage & Hour Insights
Labor Relations
- NLRB Finds that not all Whining and Complaining Protected by NLRA — from Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Blog
- Keeping policies legal: Don’t ban employees from talking about pay — from HR Hero Line
- How Would An NCAA Union Actually Work? A Guide For Perplexed Pundits — from Deadspin
- Northwestern NLRB Decision is a Nightmare for University GCs — from In House
- Employee Confidentiality Agreements – Time to review in light of the NLRB’s position being asserted in various cases — from Business, Employment and Real Estate Law in Ohio
- NLRB Charges Keebler Elves and Burritos Equal Big Bucks — from All in a Day’s Work
- Drafting Social Media Policies in 2014 — from Augmented Legality