o your employees feel appreciated? Today is Employee Appreciation Day. However, if you limit your appreciation efforts to 0.38% of a year’s working days, I can flat-out guarantee that your employees do not feel appreciated (even on their “special” day). Employee appreciation needs to be a year-round effort, not a one-off to-do to check off your corporate calendar.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Job blackmail is not the quickest way to a girl’s heart — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- The Pregnancy Discrimination Laws You Never Knew About — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- OFCCP Updates Sex Discrimination Guidelines — via Newton Software Blog
- Is Anyone Else Fascinated by the Abercrombie and Fitch Supreme Court Case? — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- In-House Counsel: Is Transgender Discrimination on Your Radar? — via In House
- Transgender Discrimination is Illegal — via Cleveland Employment Law Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Is Big Brother Watching? When Big Data Meets HR — via employeescreenIQ Blog
- Law firms clash over laptops taken by departing lawyers — via ABA Journal Daily News
- Compliance concerns for 2015 and beyond, Part 1: Social media — via InsideCounsel
- The Emergence of Cybersecurity Law — via Ride The Lightning
- What Does the Anthem Breach Mean For You? — via Minnesota Employer
- Twitter is surveying users about how much they get harassed online — via The Verge
HR & Employee Relations
- Though employees may not balk at signing non-competes, the key is when to use them. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- The Unholy Trinity of HR: Reference Checks — via Fistful of Talent
- Millennials Want to Be Coached at Work — via Harvard Business Review
Wage & Hour
- Some Thoughts on Employee Appreciation Day, including a Potential Wage and Hour Pitfall — via Employment Matters Blog
- DOL Wage and Hour Division Announces Fiscal Year 2014 Recovery of $240 Million From Employers — via Wage & Hour Insights
- FLSA Changes Could Make Many Retail Managers Non-Exempt Employees — via TLNT
- It’s March 2015. The DOL’s Model FMLA Forms Expired Just Days Ago. Now What? — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- Who Signed that Doctor's Note? — via All in a Day’s Work
- Marriage Equality and the FMLA — via Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
Labor Relations
- Your Business Needs a Labor Relations Response Plan — via The Michael VanDervort Blog
- (Video) NLRA and Social Media — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Labor Unions are Dinosaurs — via The Tim Sackett Project