Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Medical Marijuana Use: a New Cause of Action for Discrimination? — via The L•E•Jer
- Stop the Stigma, and Repeat After Me: “I have a disability and these are the accommodations I need” — via FisherBroyles
- Why Should Employers Take Pregnancy Discrimination and Accommodation Seriously? Here Are More Than 500,000 Reasons Why. — via Jeff Nowak's FMLA Insights
- Pish-posh to everything we ever knew about litigating discrimination claims — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Can a “Sub-Group” of Over-40 Workers File a Federal Age Discrimination Claim? — via The Emplawyerologist
- The quiet struggle of male breadwinners — via Wonkblog
Social Media & Tech
- Gotta catch ’em all! But who is catching you? — via The Sociable Lawyer Blog
- #Fired: Post a Tweet, Lose Your Job — via EntertainHR
- Ask an Expert: All About Cybersecurity and Staying Safe — via Lifehacker
- Data: It Is Lurking Everywhere, Especially in the Shadows — via Technology Company Counselor
- All Eddie Bauer stores in the US hit with malware — via Engadget Mobile
- New Black Hat Cybersecurity Buzzwords — via Technologist
HR & Employee Relations
- Posting Absences — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Millennials and the Gig Economy — via Gig Employer Blog
- Joint Legislative Committee Created to Fix Unemployment Compensation System — via Ohio Chamber Blog
- The Second Circuit Holds That Employees Can Be Fired For Not Wanting To Incriminate Themselves — via Above the Law
- In-House Lawyer’s Intro to Trade Secrets — via In House
Wage & Hour
- Something “Unexpected” Happened When Seattle Raised The Minimum Wage — via Zero Hedge
- Spa day! Let’s do an FLSA white-collar exemption makeover! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Do Employees Need to Have Final Hiring and Firing Authority to Qualify for the FLSA’s Executive Exemption? — via Minnesota Employer
- Am I protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act if I telecommute? — via Overtime Lawyer Blog
- Employers Need To Be Careful When Counting Mandatory Overtime As Leave Under the Family and Medical Leave Act — via Labor & Employment Law Navigator
- Dear HR: Stop Telling Employees They Can’t Apply For FMLA Until They Use Their Vacation — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
Labor Relations
- Alt Labor — via Labor Relations Institute
- NLRB’s Latest Joint Employer Decision Is Problematic for Temporary Staffing Firms and Their Clients and NLRB Axes Traditional Treatment of Search-for-Work and Interim Employment Expenses — via Labor Relations Today
- NLRB “Student Assistants Covered by the NLRA” — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- “The Faulty Logic Of The NLRB College Student Unionization Ruling” — via Walter Olson's Overlawyered
- What the NLRB’s Ruling That Graduate Teaching Assistants Are Employees, With the Rights to Organize and Bargain Collectively Means for Employers — via Management Memo
- NLRB Excludes Theology Teachers from Bargaining Unit at Catholic Universities — via Labor Relations
- Social Media Reputation, Employee Complaints, the NLRB, and Chipotle — via Shear on Social Media Law
OSHA & Safety
- Your Employee, Worried About Zika, Has to Travel to Miami. Now What? — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- OSHA Issues Special Zika Guidance to Employers — via OSHA Law Blog
- Illinois Home Builder Serial Violator of Construction Site Safety Rules, OSHA Says — via Joe's HR and Benefits Blog
- Safely Preventing Workplace Violence — via Troutman Sanders HR Law Matters