Have you heard the one about the intern fired after hiding an offensive message for his employer buried within the stack of post-it notes he was sent out to purchase?
Opposing Views has all the info.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Workplace Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Supreme Court Decision — via Blogging4Jobs
- Obergefell Decision Impact on Employers — via In-house ACCess
- Federal Court Says Employer Can Be Liable for Acts of Anonymous Harasser — via Employment Matters Blog
- Hospital Settles ADA Suit Alleging It Withdrew Job Offer After Learning Applicant Had MS — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- Blatant Ageism — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Timing of Self-ID Usually Emerges As Ugly Issue as Companies Mature… — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Facebook is Not Your Friend at Work — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Report: Bloggers Trusted More Than All But Family And Friends — via Above the Law
HR & Employee Relations
- Mistakes Employers Make When Conducting Background Checks — via TLNT
- The danger of a 24-hour workday — via Business Management Daily
- Post-Employment Covenants: Is an Inducement to Smile An Inducement to Cancel? — via Employment Matters Blog
- Conflating abuse and incivility in the academic workplace — via Minding the Workplace
- OSHA Extends Enforcement Date for Confined Spaces in Construction Standard — via OSHA Law Blog
- An Injured Employee Tests Positive for Drugs… Now What? — via GMS Blog
- Keeping up with Background Screening — via ERC Insights Blog
Wage & Hour
- No Vacation for Employment Law: New “Interpretation” for Independent Contractors Issued by USDOL — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Welcome to the 1099 Economy — via Compensation Cafe
- Fedex Drivers In Kansas Are Employees Not Independent Contractors — via Wage & Hour Defense Institute
- Evaluating The Impact Of USDOL’s Salary Proposal — via Wage and Hour Laws Blog
- Will the new #overtime rules be good or bad? Here’s how to be heard. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Just Say No To Overtime — via Next Blog
- How Obergefell v. Hodges Impacts Employee Leave Laws — via The Emplawyerologist
- Need To Investigate Employee Misconduct While the Employee is on FMLA Leave? Follow This Employer’s Lead — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor Relations
- Court of Appeals Reverses Board Decision Allowing Employees to Wear “Inmate,” “Prisoner” Shirts in Customer Homes — via Labor Relations Today
- Union Is the New Black: Labor Organizing in Orange Is the New Black, And What It Means For You — via Workplace Fairness
- AT&T’s “Prison” Break: “Inmate” Employees Lose NLRB Appeal — via All in a Day’s Work
- Photo ID Needed to Leave Union, Not to Vote for Union — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Federal Judge Disregards NLRB’s Murphy Oil Holding and Dismisses Employees’ Wage/Hour Claims — via Management Memo
- Unions hit the gas: New ‘ambush’ rules cause spike in elections — via Business Management Daily