Earlier this week, I came across the following while watching the local morning news:
The consumer reporter was demoing an online t-shirt business with two female station employees modeling shirts that read,”I can make you feel cheep,” and “I can take 80% off.” While this demonstration in no way rises to the level of actionable harassment, you might want to rethink your workplace culture if putting female employees in clothes that talk about their promiscuity is part of it.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- 28 percent of whites say they favor a law allowing homeowners to discriminate — via Wonkblog
- What is Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and how could it affect your business? — via Blogging4Jobs
- The focus of the ADA turns to websites in the digital age: Is your site compliant? — via Employer Law Report
- Hey, remind me, what is associational discrimination again? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Restricting Transgender’s Use of Restroom Found in Violation of Title VII — via Workplace Insights
- Google’s algorithms advertise higher paying jobs to more men than women — via The Verge
- EEOC’s revised pregnancy guidance: Now, just barely more flexible! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- EEOC: Employer Violated ADA By Not Hiring Applicant Because Her Child Had Disability — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- Your Employees Are Scared to Take Vacation. Fix That. — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Working on Vacation? — via Workplace Prof Blog
- No Fault Employment? — via Employment Matters Blog
- Working Dads and Parental Leave: My MSNBC Interview — via Fathers, Work and Family
- Avoiding the “Own Goal” at Work – Three Lessons from the Women’s World Cup — via EntertainHR
- Roundup on civility and incivility at work — via Minding the Workplace
Wage & Hour
- Obama unveils overtime regs — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Amid New Overtime Rules, More Employers Might Set Email Curfew — via Yugi Noguchi at NPR’s All Tech Considered
- Independent contractor versus employee: “Control” is the issue — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- San Francisco Retail Workers Bill Of Rights — via Employer Defense Law Blog
- What are the “off-the-clock work” trouble spots? — via Business Management Daily
- Male Stripper Wage Law Update (SFW) — via All in a Day’s Work
- SCOTUS’ Gay Marriage Ruling and Its Impact on Employee Benefits — via The Emplawyerologist
Labor Relations
- Confidential Documents Properly Withheld From Union — via Employer’s Law Blog
- Teachers Say 17 Firings at Urban Prep Charter Schools Were Retaliation for Unionization — via Workplace Fairness
- Should I Let Employees Talk About Their Salaries? — via Evil Skippy at Work
- The Road Ahead: Top 10 Labor Issues to Watch in the Back Half of 2015 — via Labor Relations Today
- One more NLRB overruling is coming — via Ross Runkel Report