Come see what all the fuss is about. Tickets are only $20, and, for now are still available, but will sell out before the lights dim Wednesday night. And, if you’re not in Cleveland, please support these guys by checking them out when they come through your town, this spring, summer, or beyond.
Update: Earlier this week, the House passed the Working Families Flexibility Act. Much of the press surrounding this bill frames it as a law that will take away overtime pay from employees. Click here to read why this spin is flat out wrong (hint: an employer cannot force comp time on any employee, and an employee must agree, in writing, to accept comp time in lieu of overtime pay).
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- No, The Court Did Not Rule that Discrimination Against Women Is Legal — via Suzanne Lucas, Evil HR Lady
- No spin here: O’Reilly case shows “high performer” not worth harassment factor — via HR Hero Line
- Fox Proves It: Sexual Harassment Is Contagious — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Fox News & Bill O’Reilly — Best Practices for Conducting Internal Workplace Investigations — via EntertainHR
- Fear of the Ebola Monster, and acting on other stereotypes, can create scary ADA lawsuits — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- ADA Compliance as a Delegable Duty: Did I really Say That? — via William Goren’s Understanding the ADA
- Employers Must Accommodate Time Off For Religious Observances — via FisherBroyles
- Religion and LGBT Discrimination — Who is Protected Under Title VII — via Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Help, I Am Stranded in a Remote Country With a Nigerian Prince Who Will Give You Millions — via The Employment Brief
- 95% of Employers Report Employees Circumvent Cybersecurity Policies — via Ride The Lightning
- Cybersecurity Training Nonexistent at One-Third of SMBs — via Dark Reading
- The Remote Revolution: Solutions to Empower Next-Gen Workers — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Paid leave entitlements that backfire — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- You Say Paternity, I Say Pawternity: Creative Leave Policies that Work for Your Culture — via All in a Day’s Work
- The New World of Work — Flexible Careers and Freelancing — via TalentCulture
- Five Tips for Eliminating Workplace Misconduct — via TLNT
- 6 timekeeping practices that reduce your risk of wage-hour liability — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Don’t Let Your Efforts to Reduce Overtime Lead to a Class Action — via California Employment Law
- Sleeping on the Job? New York Court Finds Home Healthcare Employees Entitled to Pay for Each Hour on Overnight Shifts — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- Fake Flexibility: Proposed “Comp Time” Legislation is a Fraud — via 1 Million for Work Flexibility
- The Deceptively Named ‘Working Families Flexibility Act,” Passed by the House Today, Is a “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” and an Anti-Worker Bill — via MomsRising
- “Shifting” Away From Hourly Pay … Be Aware of Potential Pitfalls — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- Contractors Versus Full-Time Employees – Which Is Right for You? — via Workology
- Can HR be Held Liable for FMLA Denial? — via Workplace Insights
- How to Manage Through the NLRB’s Joint Employer Standard — via CUE, Inc.
- ALJ Rules Union Steward May Use a Cell Phone to Secretly Record a Meeting with Management — via The Employment Brief
- Unions Protect Employees And Offensive Employee Conduct, And That’s How Unions Work — via Above the Law
- You Can’t Be Fired For a Facebook Post Calling Your Boss a “LOSER”—NLRB v. Pier Sixty — via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
- Like Backyard Football when We were Kids, NLRB Allows a “Do-Over” — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- OSHA Rescinds Rule on Union Reps Participating in Safety Walk-Throughs — via Stoel Rives World of Employment
- OSHA Launches Campaign on Young Worker Safety — via OSHA Law Blog
- OSHA Withdraws “Fairfax Memo” — Union Representatives May No Longer Participate in Work Place Safety Walkarounds at Non-Union Facilities — via Management Memo