I’ve never used this space to write a restaurant review, until today. While in Germany, my wife and I dined at Zur Tränke, a quaint little restaurant attached to a local riding school. Our friends arranged a special five-course wine tasting dinner, which started with a cold tomato soup with a tomato and olive salad, followed by chicken-liver paté with blackberry jam, a spinach ravioli with shrimp, lamb consummé, grilled lamb with roasted potatoes, and ending with assorted cheeses for dessert, each paired with a different wine. It was one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.
If you ever find yourself anywhere near Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, you need to eat at Zur Tränke. You will not be disappointed.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- 5 ways employers can spend a lot less time in court — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Paid Suspension “Typically” not an “Adverse Employment Action” Under Title VII — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- What are the business costs of ignoring racial and gender diversity? — via ABA Journal Daily News
- UPS Manager’s Disability Does Not Excuse Perceived Racist Comment — via The Employment Brief
- Court Rejects The EEOC’s Novel Attempt To Impose Disparate Treatment Liability Without Any Injury — via Workplace Class Action Litigation
- Did you know that National Origin discrimination covers American born workers? — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Failure to Promote, Failure to Accommodate, Retaliation, and Breach of Confidentiality As ADA Causes of Action — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Accommodating Religion: Ignorance Is Not Bliss — via The Labor Dish
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- 2015 ABA Tech Survey shows 60% of attorneys use an iPhone, 40% use an iPad — via iPhone J.D.
- The Internet of Things Has No Clothes – A Defcon 23 Summary — via Augmented Legality
- Risky business: when your subordinate becomes your Facebook ‘friend’ — via Technology for HR
- LinkedIn's Lookup app finds co-workers with the right skills — via Engadget Mobile
- “Yelping” Does Not Entitle You To Minimum Wage — via Wage and Hour Law Update
HR & Employee Relations
- Working at Amazon is Hell. So What? — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Unlimited Vacation & Parental Leave – It’s Good to Be In the 1% — via Blogging4Jobs
- Respecting the Rhythm of Work and Family — via Fathers, Work and Family
- Disregarding the Traditional Workweek — via Attorney at Work
- Bathroom Monitor: The Newest HR Pro Title — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Employees Can’t Be Summed Up by a Personality Test — via Harvard Business Review
- 5 Ways The Workplace Needs To Change To Get The Most Out Of Generation Z — via Fast Company
Wage & Hour
- The Nightmare of the Labor Department’s New Overtime Rule — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- How do you make a wage-and-hour lawsuit go away? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- When Cancer Strikes: What Happens AFTER You Run Out of Paid Time Off — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Struggling to accommodate coworkers’ medical leave in a small office — via Ask a Manager
- A Cruise Aboard the Love Boat is Not Protected by the FMLA, Even When the Doc Says It’s a Good Idea — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor Relations
- Here comes a NLRB move to unionize temps — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- NLRB Denies McDonald’s Appeal of Motion to Dismiss Joint Employer Claims — via Management Memo
- Eighth Circuit Reverses NLRB Order Requiring Reinstatement of Employee Who Threatened a Co-Worker — via Minnesota Employer