Last Saturday night Norah performed to a crowd of 1000-plus inside the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We weren’t allowed backstage, but heard that she was pacing a trench of nerves into the Rock Hall’s floor before her band took the stage. Was she nervous about having to perform in front of a crowd that large in the most important gig of her young life? Nope. “I don’t get nervous about that, dad.” She was just nervous that the cold she’d been fighting would cause her voice to crack. It didn’t, and she rocked the Rock Hall.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- A message from Stevie Wonder on providing accommodations to individuals with disabilities — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- EEOC Charge Statistics FY2015 (Updated Chart!) — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Why Doesn’t This Administration Help Victims Of Religious Discrimination? — via FisherBroyles
- Employee Medical Records and Files: Keep Private! — via Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
- How to Minimize Retaliation Claims During the Termination Process — via Currents
- EEOC Seeks to Expand Retaliation Claims in Proposed Enforcement Guidance – Public Input Sought — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- The Legality of Tracking Employees By GPS — via Trading Secrets
- Drones in the workplace: tips for handling new technology — via Technology for HR
- Hollywood Hospital Suffers Cyberattack: $3.4 Million Ransom Demanded — via Ride The Lightning
- Drunken driver gets enhanced sentence over her live-stream selfie video on Periscope — via ABA Journal Daily News
- Research Lists the Top Work-Related Autocompletes — via Workplace Diva
- Facebook opens Instant Articles to all publishers — via Real Lawyers Have Blogs
HR & Employee Relations
- Stop! Thief! — via Next Blog
- The Untouchables: Why You Should Stop Coddling Bad Employees — via TLNT
- Non-Competes and Non-Solicitation Agreements: You're a Sucker If You Don't Think They Apply To HR — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- Chipotle’s HR Just Had a Major Screw Up! — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Is It A Bad Idea To Inform Employees About The Primaries? — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Zika Virus: What Employers Should Know – Employment Law This Week — via Health Employment and Labor
- Pack Up Your Pipeline: Reefer Madness & Recruiting — via Fistful of Talent
Wage & Hour
- Law firm that files overtime suits agrees to settle overtime action — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- $89K manager may not be FLSA-exempt, court rules — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- What You Should Know Before Settling That Wage and Hour Claim Out of Court — via The Emplawyerologist
- Final “White Collar” Overtime Regulations Expected Soon — via Fair Labor Standards Act Law
- Pay for Play? Not Under the FLSA! — via New Jersey Employment Law Blog
- Uberization Of The Workplace, Part 2: Uberization Of Employer/Employee/Independent Contractor Relationships – An Introduction — via Employment Essentials
- Dave and Busted? - Are You Cutting Hours to Avoid the ACA Employer Mandate? — via All in a Day’s Work
Labor Relations
- NLRB and Court Says Lying Out of Desperation to Get a Job is OK — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Union-Fees Case in Limbo Following Scalia’s Death — via Education Week
OSHA & Workplace Safety
- Is Your Safety Program Falling Short? — via Meyers Roman’s Ohio OSHA Law Blog
- How Will the “Gig” Economy Affect Company Safety? — via Mike Haberman at Blogging4Jobs
- How to prevent falls in the workplace — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Know what to do when a workplace injury prompts an OSHA inspection — via HR Hero Line
- OSHA publishes New Whistleblower Investigations Manual — via OSHA Law Blog