WIRTW #371 (the “no more pencils…” edition)

I love school. I mean, I loved school when I was a student, but now that I work, and my wife works, I really love when my kids are in school. It means that I don’t have to expend any energy thinking about how they are going to spend their days. The bus picks them up and drops them off, period. Now that school’s out, however, we have to manage sitters and camps, and getting them to and from sitters and camps. So, we’ve spent the past two weeks dropping off and picking up at camp (which, for me, is 45 minutes from work, without traffic).

How do other employees, and their employers, cope with this seasonal time-management dance? Read “School’s Out!” Means More Free Time for Kids, But None for Working Parents. Here is Help for Employers Managing the Fallout. — via Employment Law Watch

Here’s the rest of what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Rachel Dolezal (Spokane NAACP) and the Deep Circle of Self-ID in the Workplace — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
• Rachel Dolezal and the Quandary of “Perceived As” Discrimination — via Employment Discrimination Report 
• “Patience” is a great G N’ R song; not a reasonable accommodation under the ADA — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
• Revisiting Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA — Being “Effective” — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Harassment “must-have” no. 4: The Determination — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
• When hiring, never consider or mention military reserve obligations — via Business Management Daily
• Older workers are a bargain — via Ross Runkel Report

Social Media & Workplace Technology

• Clinton e-mail controversy highlights dangers of using personal online accounts for work — via Technology for HR
• Icing on the cake for Facebook privacy laws & the impact on your workplace — via Employment Law Worldview
• My Boss Questioned Me About Personal Texts — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Survey Reveals Social Media’s Biggest Workplace Problem — via Workplace Diva
• Workers in America have problems. Meet the technologies trying to solve them. — via Wonkblog

HR & Employee Relations

• Here Are The 50 Best States For Working Dads — via Workplace Diva
• Are We More Productive When We Have More Time Off? — via Harvard Business Review
• The most common—and bizarre—workplace productivity killers — via Ragan.com

Wage & Hour

• California regulators: Uber drivers are employees — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
• Summer Interns and The ACA — via Workplace Insights
• Is Your Company required to Pay You Overtime Compensation For After-Hours Smart-Phone Use? — via Overtime Lawyer Blog
• Surprise!! An OSHA Inspector Is At Your Door! — via The Emplawyerologist
• OSHA Compliance Officers Instructed to Collect Employer Data for Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order — via OSHA Law Blog

Labor Relations

• NLRB Dramatically Educates Private School on Meaning of Concerted Protected Activity — via Management Memo
• NLRB Orders Reinstatement of Undocumented Workers Terminated in 2003 — via Matt Austin Labor Law
• NLRB Unwinding Temporary Employment Model — via Labor Relations Institute

Until next week…