Earlier this week, Moodvise published its list of the The 100 Most Influential People in HR and Recruiting on Twitter. I clocked in at a respectable #83. If you are new to Twitter, or just looking for a good list of folks to follow for your 140-character HR nuggets, you should check on Moodvise’s top 100.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- End tenure as of age 70… — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- For the defense: It’s getting complicated — via Michigan Employment Law Connection
- McDonald's Corporation Sued In Employment Discrimination Case — via Overtime Lawyer Blog
- Court Holds Employer Who Fired Employee For Making Death Threats May Have Violated ADA — via The Employment Brief
- Two big sexual harassment cases: where the employers went wrong — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- McDonald’s Wrongful Termination Lawsuit to Test NLRB Decision — via WSJ.com Law Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Hack to the Future: Eleven Cyber Risk Developments Watch in 2015 — via The D & O Diary
- Data Security and Cyberthreat Trends for 2015 — via The SHRM Blog
- OK to monitor email without consent? — via Business Management Daily
HR & Employee Relations
- If You Run Credit Checks on Your Job Candidates, Now Would Be A Good Time To Panic — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- S’now Joke: You are Fired for “Bad Weather” — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Miles on Employee Handbooks — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- How should your office handle snow days? — via Ask a Manager
- Handling Employee Theft — via HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Do I Have To Respond To A Complaint About “Deflated Balls” — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Playing “I-Spy” in the NFL Deflate-Gate Is No Different than the Workplace — via Sherman Law Corporation
- A Working from Home Experiment Shows High Performers Like It Better — via Harvard Business Review
Wage & Hour
- BLIZZARD! Wage and Hour Reminders for Employers on Winter Storm — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- FACT OR FICTION: Snow + Office Closed = FMLA Day — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- Unpaid Internship Showdown at the Second Circuit — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- FLSA Collective Action Certified By NJ Federal Court: Another Dangerous “Electronic” Class Action — via Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Employers Cannot Rely on Timekeeping Policies as a Defense to FLSA Claims — via HR Defense Blog
- Eleventh Circuit Explains That Employer Knowledge of Work Renders It Compensable — via Wage and Hour Law Update
Labor Relations
- Despite Government Efforts, Union Density Slips Further — via LaborPains.org
- Labor board readies flurry of decisions — via The Hill
- Ithaca Adjunct Faculty Begin Organizing Effort — via Labor Relations Today
- NLRB’s Budget Increases as Workload Decreases — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- What is a “Right to Work” law? — via Texas Employment Law Blog
- Union Membership Declines In 2014 — via Labor Relations Today
- NLRB: Employers may terminate employees for insubordinate social media messages — via Technology for HR