With the end of the year drawing nigh, today’s post will be my last of 2014 (barring any hot-off-the-presses breaking news). I wish all of my readers a joyous holiday season (whatever your December celebration of choice), and a happy New Year. I’ll see everyone back in 2015.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Santa Sued for Disability Discrimination Due to Reindeer Harassment — via Bolek Besser Glesius, LLC
- Ebola discrimination in your workplace, what the Department of Justice wants you to know. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Do You Hear What I Hear? Accent Discrimination in the Workplace. — via Fitzpatrick on Employment Law
- The GOP Effect on the EEOC — via HRE Online
- Is Retaliation The New Discrimination?? — via Employment Law Lookout
- Anti-discrimination training: How to harm when you’re trying to help — via HR Cafe
- Six Geese a Laying … And How Not to Get Your Goose Cooked With a Pregnancy Discrimination Claim — via All in a Day’s Work
- Is alcoholism considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? — via Employment Law Bits
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Employee Personal Information – The Gift You Don’t Want to Give this Christmas — via EntertainHR
- What We Can Learn from the Biggest Corporate Hacks — via Lifehacker
- Jets Owner “Accidentally” Favorites Tweet Calling For GM's Firing — via Deadspin
- Time for Employers to Consider Social Media Background Checks? — via employeescreenIQ Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- The Top Five Signs you Need an HR Person — via Blogging4Jobs
- Employment law advice you should never follow — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- How Employers Do Employment Background Checks — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- FCRA Class Action Lawsuits: What Employers Need to Know — via Trepanier MacGillis Battina
- Millennials Seek Flexibility at Work — via Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
- Guns In The Workplace Versus Employer’s Property Rights — via Ohio HR Law
- Is Full-Time Telecommuting a Good or Bad Thing? — via Technologist
Wage & Hour
- PA Supreme Court Affirms Nine-Figure Judgment Against Wal-Mart — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Wage and Hour Considerations During The Holiday Season — via Overtime Lawyer Blog
- Yes, Employers Can Still Have Unpaid Interns (Under the Right Circumstances) — via Wage & Hour Insights
- FMLA Leave for Headache Effectively Converts Full-Time Position into Part-Time Position; Employers' Shrieks Heard Across the Country — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor Relations
- NLRB and labor law roundup — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- NLRB Delivers Freshly Wrapped Gift to Trumka — via Labor Pains
- NLRB helps unions by speeding elections; “ambush elections” rule to be fought by business groups — via The Business Journals
- NLRB: Employers Must Include Employees’ Phone Numbers, Email Addresses in Voter Lists — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- Alt-Labor — via Labor Relations Institute
- National Labor Relations Board Narrows Arbitral Deferral Standards — via Labor Relations Today