Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Being “Qualified” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Being Able to Perform “Essential Functions” of Job — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Here’s Why Your Company Should Offer Paid Maternity Leave — via TLNT
- Private Employers Likely to Face Gender Identity Discrimination Claims as Federal Government Continues to Expand Title VII Protections to Transgender Employees — via Employer Defense Law Blog
- EEOC Will Now Process and Investigate Sexual Orientation, Transgender, and Gender Identity Claims — via Randy T. Enochs’s Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Five Key Social Media Questions All Health Care Employers Should Consider: Question #3: How Do I Protect Patient Privacy On Social Media? — via netWORKed Lawyers
- Those without Facebook accounts need not apply. Well, maybe not in one state. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Doing online “reputation management”? — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- “Sixth Circuit creates circuit split on private search doctrine for computers” — via How Appealing
- What Companies Should Ask Before Embracing Wearables — via Harvard Business Review
- Cyber Insurance: Why you should require certain vendors to have it — via Privacy and Data Security Insight
- Don’t Tweet On Me! — via Employment Law Lookout
- Texting in the office: a problem, or just yet another distraction? — via Business Management Daily
HR & Employee Relations
- American Ninja Warrior – Lessons on Family, Life, & Work — via Rob Schwartz’s dadworking
- No Matter What Scrabble Says, Don’t Ever Use These 10 Words at Work — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Hilariously honest job posting admits the pay is ‘sh*t’ and the boss is a ‘d*ckhead’ — via Boy Genius Report
- The Pros and Cons of Mandatory Workplace Arbitration — via Abovethelaw.com
- Work/Life Balance and Lessons from Managing Two Careers — via YourHRGuy.com
- Millennials may not be the radicals you think — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Slowly but surely, workplace bullying laws are becoming a reality in the U.S. — via Minding the Workplace
Wage & Hour
- Wage and Hour Division Seeks Information on Smartphones’ Impact on Hours Worked — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- Wage-Hour Audits: Lessons Learned From Chipotle’s Heartburn — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- An Open Letter to the Department of Labor Concerning The Proposed Changes To Exemptions for White Collar Regulations — via Wage and Hour Law Update
- Third Circuit Defines “Overnight Stay” for FMLA — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- FMLA Leave: sometimes, it is about putting the pieces together — via Employer Law Report
- OSHA Publishes New Whistleblower Investigations Manual — via Employment Law Lookout
- OSHA Issues Spring Regulatory Agenda — via OSHA Law Blog
- The ACA Today: Where it Stands and How it Affects Employers — via ERC Insights Blog
Labor Relations
- General Counsel Responds to Labor Practitioners’ Questions — via Vorys on Labor
- Regional Directors Report Data on The NLRB’s Amended Election Rules After One Month – Court Challenges Continue — via Health Employment and Labor
- Video: What every new Wal-Mart employee hears about why unions are terrible — via Wonkblog
- Board Dismisses Six ULP Charges Against Am. Apparel — via Labor Relations Today
- Update: What Recent NLRB Activity Means for Employee Handbooks and Policies — via Intown Employer
- Is the NLRB is expanding its list of “inherently” concerted protected activities under Section 7? — via Employment Law Matters
- How We’re Voting on the Union, and Why — via Deadspin