If you’re a start-up in the business of selling online dating through an iPhone app, its probably best that one of your executives not be accused of sexual harassment. Thus, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that earlier this week, Tinder’s chief marketing officer resigned as part of a settlement of a sexual harassment claim levied by one of the company’s female co-founders. From USAToday:
Justin Mateen, the Tinder executive accused of sexually harassing a coworker he had dated, has resigned from the company. The resignation came as the dating startup settled the sexual harassment lawsuit from Whitney Wolfe, one of Tinder’s early employees.
Wolfe, who says she was a Tinder co-founder, alleged in June that she was pressured to resign after complaining about Mateen’s behavior which included “sexist, racist and otherwise inappropriate comments, emails and text messages.” She also claimed she was stripped of her “co-founder” title.
This is one of several high-profile cases that alleges sexist behavior in California’s tech industry.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC takes on fitness-for-duty medical releases; how to avoid the crosshairs. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Can Employers Learn How to “Get Religion” From Wal-Mart? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Is Your EEOC Regional Office The Fiercest? — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Words matter when firing disabled employee — via Business Management Daily
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Lawyer’s Duty to Preserve Social Media Evidence — via From the Sidebar
- When Employees Knock Their Bosses on Social Media — via You’re the Boss Blog
- Top 10 Social Media Mistakes Made by Supervisors — via We Know Next
- We’re All Hypocrites About Online Privacy — via Jim Norton writing at Time
HR & Employee Relations
- Compliance Services Could Save Your Background Screening Program — via employeescreenIQ Blog
- The Lost Art of Candor in the Workplace — via Lifehacker
- Germs Spread Unbelievably Fast in the Workplace — via CityLab
- How Wal-mart’s “Dress Code” Costs Employees — via Forbes
- Baltimore Ravens Failed HR 101 — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Employers, don’t commit these 5 firing faux pas! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- When to Allow Someone to Resign Instead of Firing Them — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
Wage & Hour
- Second Circuit Finds Entry-Level Accountants Exempt From Overtime Under FLSA — via Employer’s Law Blog
- Why ‘Wage Theft’ Should Scare You — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Animation Studios Sued Over Alleged Wage Fixing — via Law.com
- Under the FLSA a late paycheck is as bad as no paycheck — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Minimum-Wage Fights Create Rift Among Cheerleaders — via WSJ.com
- NFL Oakland Raiders Settle Cheerleader Lawsuit — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Employer Rejects Employee’s Fitness for Duty Certification, Faces FMLA Liability — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor Relations
- OSHA and the NLRB gang up on employers — via HR Hero Line
- Does Compelling Unions to Represent Non-Members Violate the Takings Clause? — via Workplace Prof Blog
- This Is What It’s Like To Sit Through An Anti-Union Meeting At Work — via Huffington Post