According to Nielsen Consumer Research, over the past year 52% of people did not take all their paid vacation days, leaving an average of 7.2 days unused. Why aren’t these “work martyrs” using vacation time? According to The Project: Time Off Coalition:
- 40% fear the mountain of work they’ll face when they return to work.
- 35% believe they are the only ones who can do their jobs.
- 25% do not want to risk losing their jobs or fear being seen as replaceable while on vacation.
Readers, I will not be one of those people. Today’s post in the last you’ll read until I return from my German holiday on August 17. I will be, more or less, off the grid enjoying my time off. I’ll try not to over-share vacation stories and pictures when I return.
In the meantime, the ABA Journal has opened nominations for this year’s Blawg 100, which has honored me with inclusion for the past five years. If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve read at my blawg (or others), click here and nominate. I’ve already submitted my nominations, as the Labor & Employment Blawgosphere has a wealth of worthy blawgs from which to choose. The nomination deadline is August 16.
Also worth mentioning is The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog Contest, which is also soliciting nominations for legal blogs across seven different categories, including Labor and Employment. Nomination close August 21.
Until August 17, Auf Wiedersehen.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Discrimination v. Reality — via Heather Bussing at HR Examiner with John Sumser
- 7 Myths About the Americans With Disabilities Act — via Inc.
- The Americans with Disabilities Act at 25 — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- ADA at 25 — via Understanding the Americans with Disability Act
- The Limits To Accommodating Mental Illness In The Workplace — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Employment law autopsy: “Old fart” gets fired — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Retaliation claims can sink an employer — via EmployerLINC
- Class-y Look: Abercrombie’s Look Policy Under Attack … Again — via All in a Day’s Work
- Is Your Paternity Leave Policy Discriminatory? — via Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- The Internet of Things That Eavesdrop and Invade Privacy — via Augmented Legality
- 6th Cir.: No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in “Pocket-Dial” — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Mötley Crüe frontman settles suit over Facebook password — via ABA Journal Daily News
- One Answer to Company Data Breaches: Better Employee Engagement — via TLNT
- Don’t Ignore YouTube When Marketing Your Law Firm Online — via Technologist
HR & Employee Relations
- When Your Model Employee Isn’t Anymore — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- On Tom Brady and Getting Caught Breaking a Rule at Work…— via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- “It’s not me, it’s you!” Seinfeld lessons on candid employee evaluations — via EntertainHR
- Finding a Perfect Work-Life Balance Is Impossible, and That’s Okay — via Lifehacker
- 7 Tips for Investigating Workplace Complaints — via In House
- Is Employee “Free Speech” A Constitutional Right? — via Minnesota Employer
- How Obama Could Make a Little Box on Job Applications a Very Big Deal — via Lindsay Blakely at Inc.
Wage & Hour
- Checking Your Email at Home Isn’t Exactly What I Would Call “Working” — via TLNT
- A Beginner’s Guide to Your Company’s Employee Stock Plans — via Lifehacker
- Can Au Pairs Legally Be Paid Less Than $5 An Hour? — via Workplace Fairness
- Can Employers Offer Compensatory Time to Exempt Employees? — via Wage & Hour Insights
- Can Au Pairs Legally Be Paid Less Than $5 An Hour? — via Workplace Fairness
Labor Relations
- Think Salaries Are Confidential? Google Found Out They Aren’t — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Lessons We Learned In Winning A Union Election Under the NLRB’s New Rules — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- Will Labor Issues Figure Prominently in the 2016 Campaign Season? — via Labor Relations Institute
- Effects of NLRB’s Adoption of “Quickie Election” Rules — via The National Law Review
- Washington Court Dismisses Challenge to NLRB’s Ambush Election Rules — via Management Memo
- NLRB Removes Blanket Exemption on Mandatory Disclosure for Witness Statements. What’s an Employer To Do? — via Employment Matters Blog