Last night my family and I went out to dinner. The following is Donovan’s (age 6) solution of the kids’ menu word search.
His creative thinking should serve him well in life.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Jury awards $150K to employee who feared scanner as “Mark of the Beast” — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Tackle Bias in Your Company Without Making People Defensive — via Harvard Business Review
- Transgender employees and the so-called bathroom conundrum — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- GCs: Does Your Company Have (or Need) a Non-Discrimination Policy? — via In House
- What do you do when your pregnant employee is too big? — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Is Paternity Leave for Lawyers an Oxymoron? — via Attorney at Work
- State of the Union” on substance abuse and the workplace — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- What is a “hostile educational environment”? — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Learning From Hillary: Using Your Private Email for Black Ops at Your Company — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- How Hackers Get Their Big Breaks: The Video — via Ride The Lightning
- What Would You Do If an Employee Tweeted Something THIS Detestable? — via Inc.com
- Should I post about work on my social media accounts? — via Genesis HR Solutions
- Sample Social Media Policy for Small Businesses — via Acacia HR Solutions
- Who Will Update My Status When I’m Dead?: The Biggest Social Media Platforms’ Policies on Deceased-User Accounts — via Socially Aware Blog
- Apple Watch and the Enterprise: Oh, God. This is Kinda Dumb. — via YourHRGuy
HR & Employee Relations
- 15 workplace behaviors that could get you fired — via Ragan.com
- Employer Can Be Found Liable For Misappropriating An Employee’s Trade Secrets — via Trading Secrets
- Non-Compete Agreements Are The New Black, Part 1 — via Texas Employment Law Blog
- Can Employers Prohibit Secret Workplace Recordings? — via HR Law Matters
- an employee made an anonymous complaint to OSHA — how can I stop it from happening again? — via Ask a Manager
- “You’re getting laid off! You’re getting laid off! Everybody’s getting laid off!” — via EntertainHR
- Employers, employees see work-life balance through different lenses — via HR Hero Line
Wage & Hour
- Wait! Stop! Is Your Severance Arrangement Subject to ERISA? and Should You Create an ERISA Severance Plan? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Can Your Company Require an Employee to Buy Health Insurance? — via TLNT
- Armored Car Drivers Who Drove Vehicles Weighing Less Than 10,000 LBS as Well as CMVs Non-Exempt and Entitled to Overtime — via Overtime Law Blog
- The Overtime Fight For Document Review Continues — via Above the Law
- Ineligible Employee Still Gets FMLA Leave Due To Incomplete Policy — via Minnesota Employment Law Report
Labor Relations
- The NLRB is Changing the HR Game in April — via Blogging4Jobs
- NLRB to Begin Training Staff on New Quickie Election Rules — via Labor Relations Today
- Avoiding Union Avoidance — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Good roundup of Right to Work — via Labor Relations Institute
- Teamsters and Technology : Developing Labor Issues for Technology Industry Employers — via Management Memo