WIRTW #438 (the “White House” edition)

I heard that there was this huge meeting at the White House yesterday. 

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Here’s what I read this week.

Discrimination

• Fed. Ct.: Sexual Orientation Discrimination is Prohibited Under Title VII — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
• Nooses And the N-Word: Another Outrageous Workplace Racial Harassment Suit — via FisherBroyles
• EEOC: Reasonable Accommodation Denied to Woman Whose Religion Forbids Wearing of Pants — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog

Social Media & Technology

• #WorkTrends Recap: How Artificial Intelligence Can Change HR and Recruiting — via TalentCulture
• Clicking your way to enforceability: Court enforces ‘clickwrap’ noncompete — via Technology for HR

HR & Employee Relations

• A Law of Co-Workers — via Workplace Prof Blog
• “How will we explain this to the children?” — via Minding the Workplace
• You can’t be held hostage to a bad employee — via Ask a Manager
• The 5 Biggest Lies in HR: Election Edition — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
• Even Medieval Peasants Got More Vacation Time Than You Do — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Holiday Party: The Morning After — via All in a Day’s Work
• Office Christmas Party–strategies to avoid the legal fallout — via EntertainHR
• What Not to Do: Tips from the Ultimate Office Holiday Party Movie Trailer — via Dan Schwartz's Connecticut Employment Law Blog

Wage & Hour

• New FLSA Overtime Regulations: Planning for Costs of Compliance — via Law.com
• Employers Must Continually Navigate a Minimum-Wage Patchwork Across America — via Wage & Hour Defense Blog
• 7 Ways Your Employer May Be Violating Labor Laws [Infographic] — via HR Gazette

Labor

• Could the President-Elect Trump Recent NLRB Rulings? — via The Emplawyerologist
• Could firing one who doesn’t seem “happy and smiling and positive” violate labor law? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
• Fourth Circuit Affirms NLRB Finding That Nurses Are Not Supervisors — via The Employment Brief
• The airlines can support the people that support them: Why my family is fighting for $15 and union rights at O’Hare — via Workplace Fairness

OSHA & Safety

• OSHA Proposed Citations Covered by Texas Judge’s Grant of Preliminary Injunction to Government Contractors Challenging “Blacklisting” Executive Order — via Employment Law Lookout
• OSHA Issues New Guidelines for Safety and Health Programs — via OSHA Law Blog