Happy 8th birthday (yesterday, actually) to the best son a dad could ask for. He hasn’t had the easiest 8 years, but he’s always smiling and making people laugh. And for that (and too many other reasons to list) we love him to pieces.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Matrix’s new experience data provides the first clear snapshot of employers’ ADA exposure — via Matrix Radar
- Addiction/Perceived Addiction in the Workplace; the View from the Sixth Circuit — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- How Can People Mock Those With Disabilities? — via FisherBroyles
- Carlson v. Ailes: #Harassment and #HR — via Jonathan Segal at Next Blog
- EEOC Boasts “Substantial Progress” of Systemic Program — via Wyatt Employment Law Report
- Why Subtle Bias Is So Often Worse than Blatant Discrimination — via Harvard Business Review
- Why millennials aren’t going to solve the nation’s massive racial divides — via Wonkblog
Social Media & Technology
- With Your Social Media Policy, It’s “Live” and “Go” Time — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- A grown man’s Facebook rant about “Pokémon Go” led to his firing — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Lawyers get interested in Pokémon Go — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- How New Technology Will Change How You Work from Home — via 1 Million for Work Flexibility
- Sharing your Netflix password might constitute a federal crime — via Boy Genius Report
- Employees Bound By Clickthrough Agreements–ADP v. Lynch — via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- The Perks of Being a Flexible Workplace and Telecommuting: Should You Allow It? — via ERC Insights Blog
- Why Your Coworker Gets Special Privileges — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- The Summertime Livin’ May be Easy But Not So At Work — via TLNT
- Push to provide paid parental leave for fathers — via The Register-Guard
- The Brutal Truth About Being a Pregnant Worker in 2016: It’s Pretty Awful — via Fortune
- Wage Growth Means You Usually Screw Your Female Employees! — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Why you shouldn’t work off-the-clock — via Ask a Manager
- Will the New FLSA Regulations Push Work Offshore? — via Blogging4Jobs
- The price of HR compliance goes up again! — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Would The Government Classify This Star Wars Character As A Contractor or Employee? — via Gig Employer
Labor Relations
- Bosses are first line of defense against unions — via Business Management Daily
- Chipotle finds itself in agua caliente with NLRB over social media policy — via Technology for HR
- NLRB Reverses Rule Regarding Temporary Employees — via Labor Relations Today
- NLRB Ruling Makes Using Staffing Agency Employees More Risky — via CUE, Inc.
- NLRB on temp workers, bargaining units, and joint employers — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
OSHA & Safety
- OSHA Promotes Workplace Safety by … Limiting Drug and Alcohol Testing? — via Stoel Rives World of Employment
- Employer groups sue to block OSHA’s drug testing provisions — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Electronic Recordkeeping Rule – OSHA Delays Effective Date for Anti-Retaliation Provision — via OSHA Law Blog