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Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC wins most of discovery dispute in transgender case — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Employment Discrimination Complaints Up Over 11 Percent in 2014-2015 — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- When Is Enough Leave … Enough? — via The Labor Dish
- ADA and the “Sports Association.” — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Do you have to pay employees who are off work for religious reasons? — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Common sense could save you time, money and a lawsuit — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- When your recently-fired employee shares the secret sauce on Twitter — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Facebook “Unfriending” May Create Legal Liability — via Shear on Social Media Law
- Is LinkedIn helpful or headache? Blog post confessing disenchantment leads to connection requests — via ABA Journal Daily News
- Does Your Social Media Policy Need An Anti-Parasitic Drug? — via All in a Day’s Work
- Is The Six Hour Work Day the Key To Productivity? — via Suzanne Lucas, writing at Inc.
- Mood Rings, Magic 8-Balls & Employee Engagement — via Fistful of Talent
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Managing a Multigenerational Workforce — via Workplace Insights
- Should You Offer Your Employee a Forgivable Loan? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Overtime and Minimum Wages Under Ohio Law — via Cleveland Employment Law Blog
- DOL Promoting Timesheet App again on Official Blog — via The Day Shift
- Workers shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to not fund union politics — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Uber Worker Classification Lawsuit Gets More Complicated with Appeal to NLRB — via SF Weekly
- BREAKING: Electronic Signatures Make Debut — via Labor Relations Institute
- 8th Circuit denies enforcement of NLRB decision regarding throat-slitting gesture — via Employment Law Matters
- Why Getting Handbooks Right Matters: NLRB Judge Holds Verizon’s Restrictions on Employee Communications During Non-Working Time Violate the NLRA — via Employment Matters Blog
- Employee Who Filed Lawsuit on Behalf of Other Employees Without Their Authorization Participated in “Concerted Activity” — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Drug and Alcohol Testing May Contribute to Joint Employer Finding By NLRB — via Drug and Alcohol Testing Law Advisor
- Senator Alexander Accuses NLRB, OSHA of Coordinated Effort to Change the Law — via Labor Relations Today
- Draft DOL Policy Lists ‘Economic Realities’ as Key OSHA Test of Joint Employer Status — via Jackson Lewis
- Is Your Health Care Facility Prepared for the Next Pandemic Disease? Failure to Prepare Could Lead to OSHA Liability — via OSHA Law Update
- OSHA Inspecting 40 Percent of Reported Injuries — via OSHA Law Blog