Name the two greatest characters in the history of television. Mine are Archie Bunker at number 1, and David Brent at number 1(a). While Arhcie Bunker will never again grace the world with his bon mots, thank god for Ricky Gervais, who is giving David Brent and all of his clueless uncomfortableness new life with an entire movie, the trailer for which was just released.
If you’ve never seen the original British verion of The Office, immediately go the Netflix and watch it all. It’s only seven hours (give or take) from start to finish. What are you waiting for? You’re at work, you say. Well, it is work related, right?
Here’s the rest of what I read this week.
Discrimination
- EEOC v. Flambeau, Voluntary Plans, the Insurance Safe Harbor, and the Future of Wellness Programs — via Employment Matters Blog
- Is Your Workplace Wellness Plan Worth the Risk? — via Workplace Fairness
- Ignore the hype: Here’s what employers need to know about North Carolina’s HB 2 — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- North Carolina Now Requires Men To Use Your Employer's Ladies’ Room — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- EEOC and LGBT Discrimination — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Obesity and the ADA: Does 33% of the U.S. Population Have ADA Protection as a Result of Obesity? — via All in a Day’s Work
- Can an employer rescind a job offer based on the results of a genetic test? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- The Blunt Truth – ADA, FMLA and Medical Marijuana, How Do They Mix? — via Employment Law Lookout
- 5 Types of Law Firm Data Breaches, From Human Error to Hacktivism — via Technologist
- Five Lessons in Law Firm Cybersecurity and Privacy — via Attorney at Work
- The Future of Work Is … Ordering Taco Bell Through Slack? — via Wired
- Why and how to use Snapchat for internal communications — via Ragan.com
- Most Americans Spend Two Full Workdays a Month on Facebook — via Nextgov’s Wired Workplace
- Who Are the 5 Generations At Work? #fivegenwork — via Blogging4Jobs
- What Do Millennials Really Want at Work? — via Harvard Business Review
- Napping at Work: Why You Should Finally Implement AND Regulate it — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- 10 of the Strangest True Interview Questions — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- A vegan coworker is being aggressive toward me about food — via Ask a Manager
- Uber will pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over driver background checks — via The Verge
- FCRA Violations: A Hidden Cost of Background Checks and Credit Reports — via Employment Law Worldview
- Twitter offers 20 weeks paid leave for all new parents — via Engadget HD
- SCOTUS will not review 9-figure wage and hour judgment against Wal-Mart — via Phi Miles’s Lawffice Space
- “The Online Exemption Checklist Says…” — via Wage and Hour Laws Blog
- It’s Not Easy to Determine If an Employee Is Really “Exempt” — via TLNT
- Leaked documents show strong business support for raising the minimum wage — via Wonkblog
- NLRB Continues To Cite Its Infamous Specialty Healthcare Decision When Affirming Funky Bargaining Units — via Labor Relations
- NLRB Success Rate Laid Out in Open Letter — via Labor Relations Institute
- No April foolin’ – third lawsuit challenging DOL Persuader Rule is filed — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- NLRB: Using GPS tracking to investigate misconduct doesn’t violate NLRA — via Technology for HR
- OSHA, Focusing on Meat Processing Industry, Launches Emphasis Programs for Three Midwestern States — via OSHA Law Blog
- More OSHA Changes Ahead — via Human Resource Executive Online