Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC Retaliation Guidance, Part 1: You gotta be “protected”! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Religious discrimination claim at Colorado meatpacking plant — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- The Employment Law Game is About to Blow Up: A Look At How The Conflict in the Middle East Is Affecting Employment for Middle Easterners — via The L•E•Jer
- Top Ten Tips – No Eleven – To Avoid Employment Discrimination Claims — via FisherBroyles
- “Pregnancy Accommodation: Avoiding the Workplace Baby Blues” — via Intown Employer
- Why Are White Men So Angry? — via CostofWork
- Age bias: Prepare to justify every termination — via Business Management Daily
- Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues from the EEOC: the ADA Version — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Five Cybersecurity Tech Tips: Worries to Give You the Willies — via Attorney at Work
- 90% of Facebook’s regular users access it on mobile — via Real Lawyers Have Blogs
- Is there hope for internal e-mail? — via The Social Workplace
HR & Employee Relations
- Flexibility—Evolve or Get Left Behind — via 1 Million for Work Flexibility
- Flexibility Stigma: How Bias Against Remote Work Causes Overwork — via Blogging4Jobs
- Would You Fire Your Top Performer for Punching Another Employee? — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Does Your Company Need An Employee Probationary Period? — via Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- What Do You Get When You Mix Independent Contractors and Non-Competes? — via The Emplawyerologist
- RG3 and the Employee Departure — via Smooth Transitions
- Where to Draw the Line When Sharing Your Opinion at Work — via Workplace Insights
Wage & Hour
- Did you know there are more hourly workers than salary workers in the United States? — via Next Blog
- Choke the “gig economy,” gag workplace innovation — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Summertime Blues? Solicitor of Labor Eyes July Publication of Overtime Regs — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- DOL’s Proposed Overtime Rule Will Change White Collar Exemptions — via Tim McConville’s Labor and Employment Law Cocktail
- Unreported hours worked may count towards FMLA-eligibility hours. Wait…WTH! — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- Use The “Rolling” Method to Calculate FMLA Leave! This Employer Learned the Hard Way — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor Relations
- NLRB offers guidance on electronic signatures in representation cases — via Technology for HR
- Union files to represent Uber — via Politico
OSHA & Workplace Safety
- Have you posted your required annual OHSA Form 300A? — via Meyers Roman’s Ohio OSHA Law Blog
- Eleventh Circuit Upholds OSHA Violation with Participating Supervisor – Employment Law This Week — via OSHA Law Update