Show # 2 is this Sunday, September 25, at 12 pm, Brothers Lounge,11609 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. As always, stop and say hi, and I’ll buy you a beer.
Here’s what I read this week:
- You? A Biased Interviewer? Of Course Not. Oh, Wait… — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Is race discrimination bad for business? — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Orange Crushed! Jury awards $277,565.44 to a diabetic employee fired for drinking OJ at work — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- The ADA and Entrepreneurial Start-ups — via Next Blog
- Honesty is an Employer’s Best Policy – Honest Defense Rule in Employment Discrimination — via Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- AGEISM: Sharing This Article Only Adds To Age Bias, My Old, Misguided Friends… — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- The Almost-Final Piece on the EEOC and Workplace Retaliation… — via Janette Levey Frisch’s The Emplawyerologist
- You Have Too Many Children: If You Get Pregnant You’re Fired! — via FisherBroyles
Social Media & Tech
- The Biggest Cybersecurity Threats Are Inside Your Company — via Harvard Business Review
- Social engineering puts HR on front line of cybersecurity battle — via Technology for HR
- Cybersecurity Unemployment Rate is Zero — via Ride The Lightning
- Loose Lips Sink Ships — via Currents
- How The Internet Of Things Is Transforming Your World — via The ChamberPost
- Workplace Trends: The Ethics of Dealing With Robots At Work — via Workplace Diva
HR & Employee Relations
- Election 2016: Three Employment Law Debate Questions for Hillary Clinton — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Workplace bullying, psychological trauma, and the challenge of storytelling — via Minding the Workplace
- Can Flexible Work Options Attract Top Talent? — via 1 Million for Work Flexibility
- What Hiring Managers Really Ask When They Call Your References — via Lifehacker
- Top Reasons to Mediate Employment Disputes — via The Labor and Employment Law Blog
Wage & Hour
- The Pros and Cons of Requiring Workplace Arbitration — via California Employment Law
- The FLSA overtime rule, corporate subculture, and the “Wells Fargo effect” — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Chipotle Avoids DOL Scrutiny Despite ‘Wage Theft’ Claims — via BNA
Labor Relations
- Kroger’s Discriminatory Enforcement of No-Solicitation Rule Violates NLRA — via The Employment Brief
- Do as I say, not as I do: SEIU and the ‘Fight for $15′ campaign — via HR Hero Line
OSHA & Safety
- OSHA Draws Line in Whistleblower Deals — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- OSHA to Employers: No Gagging Whistleblowers! — via Employment Law Worldview
- Employers Using Mandatory Post-Accident Drug Testing Should Reconsider the Practice in Light of OSHA Rule — via Iowa Employment Law Blog
- OSHA Issues Whistleblower Settlement Guidance — via The Employment Brief