A big thank you to NPR’s Yuki Noguchi, who interviewed me for a story on office holiday parties gone badly, which ran on Wednesday’s Morning Edition. You can listen here:
I love my money-quote as the story’s main call-out. I should emboss it on my business cards.
Have you voted yet for this year’s ABA Blawg 100? You have until Dec. 19 to cast your vote here. (And a hearty and heart-felt thank you to Casey Sipe for the kind words in nominating me this year).
Here’s what I read this week (and last week):
Discrimination
- Cancer and the Workplace: Tips for Employers and A Thanksgiving to Remember: When Cancer Strikes — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Do you have a “super” anti-harassment contract with your employees? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Accommodating service animals in the workplace — via HR Hero Line
- “Oh Wow, You Look So Pretty I Can’t Even Concentrate” (Part II) — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Sexual Harassment Investigations — via Employment Essentials
- The EEOC and wellness programs: coming home to roost? — via Michigan Employment Law Connection
- EEOC promises guidance on wellness programs in February — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Issue of Threats via Facebook Heads to the Supreme Court — via Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Googling Candidates: Ray Rice Version — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- The Key to Managing Cyber Monday: Just Be Generous With Employees — via TLNT
- Will “Facebook at Work” be a LinkedIn Killer? — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Fitbit Data May Become Evidence in the Courtroom — via Ride The Lightning
- The Newest Field of E-Discovery: You — via Above the Law
- Is Your Company on Instagram? 3 Things GCs Should Watch For — via In House
HR & Employee Relations
- The One Where Evil HR Lady Gets Fired — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Are old ways of treating employees coming back? — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- News Flash: My Background Check and I Am Boring — via employeescreenIQ Blog
- Disgruntled Employee’s Alleged Parting Shot Leads to Federal Indictment — via Suits by Suits
- Ten Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Your Company’s Trade Secrets – Action Three: Create a Culture of Confidentiality — via netWORKed Lawyers
- Doggy Day Care Chain Makes Pet Sitters Sign Noncompetes To Protect “Trade Secrets” — via Huffington Post
- I Want it Now: Entitlement in the Workplace — via HR Schoolhouse
- Unconscionable Employment Arbitration Agreements — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Wage & Hour
- Wage Theft Costs American Workers as Much as $50 Billion a Year — via Texas Employment Law Blog
- Report: Buccaneers Employ Indentured Servants As Concessions Workers — via Deadspin
- No FLSA Overtime Recovery For What Employer “Should Have” Paid — via Wage and Hour Laws Blog
- Avoid Being the Next Unpaid Intern Headline — via Wage & Hour Defense Institute
- FLSA Rules For Exempt Employees During Snow Days — via Minnesota Employer
- Happy Thanksgiving from my Lovable FMLA Abuser, Albuquerque Turkey — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor Relations
- 2014 Union Win Rates Increase Over Same Period in 2013 — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Board ALJ Hits Phillips 66 For Media Gag Policy — via Labor Relations Today
- Franchise arrangements pose legal problem for NLRB’s proposed joint-employer standard — via Ohio HR Law
- NLRB General Counsel on Joint Employment: “The More (Employers) The Merrier” — via The Emplawyerologist
- Facebook Bus Drivers Join Teamsters — via Labor Relations Today