Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- 3d Cir: Even where old folks are treated fairly, OLDER folks can bring age-bias claims — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- No Means No – Judge Limits The EEOC’s Claims In Bass Pro Case (Again) — via Workplace Class Action Litigation
- When It Comes to Gender Equity in Workplace Activities, Shoot for Total Parity — via Employment Discrimination Report
- EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance On Retaliation — via Employment Essentials
- In 2017, think before you share — via The Verge
- Stop Gossiping in Your Work Slack — via Motherboard
- Pros and Cons of “Friending” Employees Online — via HR Daily Advisor
- Krebs’s Immutable Truths About Data Breaches — via Krebs on Security
- Cyber Security & Employees — via Troutman Sanders HR Law Matters
- The importance of engaging employees on policy AND politics — via Ohio Chamber Blog
- What #Employmentlaw Regulations Will Trump Scrub? — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- What the New York Giants Just Taught Us About Handling Office Drama — via Inc.
- Unlimited Vacation: 6 Things to Consider — via hr bartender
- Workplace bullying, social connection, and social support — via Minding the Workplace
- Fact Check: Does Labor nominee Puzder really want to put people out of work? — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Why Misclassification Matters — via Who Is My Employee?
- So Long, Secretary Perez: DOL Head’s Goodbye Message — via Wage & Hour Insights
- Ochoa v. McDonald’s Case Settling for $3.75M — via Impact Litigation Journal
- FMLA – Needed to Care For a Family Member — via Workplace Insights
- NLRB Rings In the New Year by Signaling It Will Continue Its Pro-Union Rulings — via Management Memo
- Kentucky Goes Right-To-Work — via Labor Relations Institute
- OSHA Issues Enforcement Guidance on Controversial Non-Discrimination Provisions — via Currents
- Icy weather, the “zone of employment” and workers’ compensation — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions