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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
- #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
- 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
- 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