You may have heard that Cleveland has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You may have also heard that this year is Cleveland’s turn in the rotation to host the induction ceremony.
The Rock Hall is turning this year’s inductions into a week-long party, which kicks off with Celebration Day on April 11.
Here comes the cool part. Since Joan Jett is one of this year’s inductees, the Rock Hall has invited my daughter’s School of Rock band for an encore performance of last month’s Joan Jett show—April 11, at 5 pm, on the big stage at the Rock Hall. Norah’s very sincere comment when I told her: “Some people wait their whole lives to play at the Rock Hall — I’m only 8.”
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment: Boys and Thrones — via Heather Bussing at HR Examiner with John Sumser
- What Sexual Harassment at Work Really Looks Like — via Cosmopolitan
- Nobody Discriminates Like Sara Lee? — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Showdown At The Fifth Circuit Continues: Texas Gets The Last Word On Its Challenge To The EEOC’s Criminal Background Guidance — via EEOC Year-End Countdown
- Everything old is new again: How the EEOC is reinventing itself — via Oregon Business
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- What To Do When a Fired Employee is Badmouthing Your Company — via Inc.com
- Wait…What Did He Say? (Or, What To Do When Your Employee’s Tweet Goes Viral) — via Employment Law Lookout
- Social Media 2015: Addressing Corporate Risks — via Socially Aware Blog
- The school bus driver’s beer-drinking selfie on Facebook was a bad idea — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- Wearable Workplace “Mood Monitors” Are About To Become A Thing — via Good
- Should you tell app-loving Generation Z no in the workplace? — via Information Age
- ‘Deactivated’ Facebook Account Is Discoverable In Litigation (Forbes Cross-Post) — via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
- Reality ‘bytes’: Employee sabotages electronic files and communication — via Technology for HR
HR & Employee Relations
- And Vice Versa — via dad working
- Paid Leave for New Dads and Moms: Why is U.S. so far behind? — via Families and Work Institute Blog
- How to Keep HR Off the Front Page of the Newspaper — via TLNT
- Litigation Update: Home Depot Hit for Employment Background Checks — via employeescreenIQ Blog
- The Brian Williams Story: Lessons for Employers — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- 5 Real-Life Lessons About Resume Fraud — via EmployeeScreenIQ Blog
- You’ve exceeded my expectations, Valentine! — via Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Weight Loss Competitions In The Workplace — Yay or Nay? — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Millennials on the Market: Recognition & Retention in an Age of “What’s in It for Me?” — via Compensation Cafe
Wage & Hour
- The USDOL is looking for ideas and there is a deadline of February 25th — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- U.S. Department of Labor’s blueberry squeeze goes wrong — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Government Gets Cold Shoulder to “Hot Goods” Provision Usage — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Predictable Scheduling: The Next FLSA Frontier? — via Wage & Hour Insights
- An NPR ‘Miss’ On Labor Unions and the Minimum Wage — via LaborPains.org
- When Must An Intern Be Paid? — via Overtime Lawyer Blog
- Healthy Families Act Would Let Workers Earn Paid Sick Days — via Today’s Workplace
Labor Relations
- The Cost of a Decline in Unions — via Nicholas Kristof at The New York Times
- NLRB General Counsel Issues Guidance on Deferral to Grievance Arbitration and Settlements — via Labor Relations Update
- DOL: 150 Union Pension Funds In Critical Status — via Labor Relations Institute
- D.C. Circuit Caps NLRB’s Overly Zealous Policing of Section 7 Rights — via Vorys on Labor