Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Is Siri a victim and a cause of sexual harassment? — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- KKK Hoods In The Workplace: 1996 And Now — via FisherBroyles
- Unconscious bias — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- An Employer’s First and Best Line of Defense to Discrimination Claims — via Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Company’s Urine Testing Leads to ADA Settlement — via In House
- Will the EEOC Change with Trump as President? — via The Emplawyerologist, Janette Levey Frisch
- On John Cusack, Pink Floyd, Title IX, and medical residencies. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Honest Belief — via William Goren’s Understanding the ADA
- If You Want to Be Happy at Work, Have a Life Outside of It — via Harvard Business Review
- Can You Be Fired for Political Social Media Posts? — via Outten & Golden Employment Law Blog
- If workplaces want to cut back on burnout, vacation email bans may be a good start — via ABA Journal Daily News
- Phishing Scams Targeting HR and Payroll Are on the Rise this Tax Season — via California Employment Law
- Misuse of Former Employee’s Login Credentials Leads to $5.5 Million HIPAA Settlement — via HR Daily Advisor
- Crushin’ it: being cybersecure in 2017 — via Technology for HR
- New York Cybersecurity Regulations Create Major Compliance Challenges for Employers in Financial Services, Insurance and Other Industries — via Employment Matters Blog
- The Right (and Wrong) Way to Fire — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Ohio’s New Law Altering the Concealed Carry Obligations of Employers Goes Into Effect March 21 — via Ohio Chamber Blog
- Not All Leave Is Created Equal: A New Father’s Struggle Obtaining Paid Paternity Leave — via The L•E•Jer
- Theft of Confidential Information: Pfizer’s Wiser, Are You? — via BeLabor The Point
- Protect Your Confidential Business Information — via Rush on Business
- A Lesson From Uber: You Are What Your Culture Says You Are – Like It or Not — via Fistful of Talent
- Why HR Should Become the Organization’s “Wise Sage” — via TLNT
- 4th Circuit Significantly Expands Joint Employer Liability Under FLSA With Incredibly Broad New Test — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- Cato Handbook chapters on labor and employment, minimum wage law — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- D.C. Court Doesn’t Fall for NLRB’s Lollipop Trick, Deems FedEx Drivers Independent Contractors — via Who Is My Employee?
- Employers: How to Prepare for “A Day Without” Actions — via Health Employment and Labor
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Report Catalogs Extensive Extreme Activity by Obama Era National Labor Relations Board — via Labor Relations Today
- Miscimarra Indicates the Future Trump NLRB — via Management Memo
- Unions Continue to Convince Themselves They’re Better Off Long Term with Trump in the White House — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Labor Department goes silent on workplace safety enforcement under Trump — via Workplace Fairness
- Congress Moves to Invalidate OSHA Rule Which Provides Employers Can Be Cited for Five-Years For Injury and Illness Records — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
- OSHA Identifies 10 Most Cited Safety and Health Violations — via OSHA Law Blog
- Dealing With Death in the Workplace — via Next Blog