I write a lot about music (particularly for a legal blog), which means that if you are any sort of regular reader, you read a lot about music. What can I say? You write what you know. I we do a lot of music in my house. Between my two kids we have three bands, three weekly lessons, three rehearsals, and gigs, gigs, and more gigs (including three this weekend).
Much of my writing about music is about my favorite band, Old 97’s. And, I don’t apologize for it. Yes, I love their music, and their songs, and how damn good they are live. But I also love who they are, as noted by this clip from their Cleveland show last week.
Who else gets a shout-out from the stage in the middle of a concert? Norah, that’s who. I can only assume she’s learning and will pay it all back when she’s famous some day.
(Bonus, check out Nicole Atkins, who we knew very little about before last week, and she converted us all to huge fans with one 40-minute opening set).
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Mother’s Day Employment Law Quiz! Pregnancy, lactation, you name it! — via Robin Shea's Employment & Labor Insider
- Discrimination Complaints Against Frontier Airlines by Employee Moms Mount — Law.com
- You Offered Her the Job, She’s Pregnant. Now What? — The Emplawyerologist
- Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Would Boost Moms, Families, Economy — MomsRising
- Sexual harassment can kill you if you are a start-up company — FisherBroyles
- What Makes a Work Environment “Hostile”? — Suits by Suits
- Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation -- The Wave Grows — Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- Using science to make humans more moral might just make us racist instead — Boy Genius Report
Technology
- Microsoft’s New Tool That Tells the Boss Everything — TLNT
- How to spear-phish a hospitality business — Walter Olson's Overlawyered
- ABA Issues Ethics Opinion on Protection of Attorney-Client Communications — Ride The Lightning
- The Best Cybersecurity Investment You Can Make Is Better Training — Harvard Business Review
- Trump Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order — Technologist
- Why Do People Watch Porn At Work? — Workology
HR & Employee Relations
- The Dangers of an Outdated Handbook — GMS Blog
- Unlimited Paid Time Off? Try It – It Works! — Next Blog
- The 4-hour workday vs. no work at all: Utopian and dystopian visions of laboring — Minding the Workplace
- Empirical Evidence on the Efficacy of Pre-Employment Criminal Background Checks — Workplace Prof Blog
- The Myth of “Temporary Employees” — Who Is My Employee?
- Why do employees quit? Look at the five biggest reasons — Ragan.com
- The dark side of “unlimited” vacation time — Ask a Manager
Wage & Hour
- What Sheryl Sandberg Doesn’t Understand about Minimum Wage and Childcare — Suzanne Lucas, Evil HR Lady
- Progress made to revising the FLSA to reflect today’s reality — Mike Haberman's Omega HR Solutions
- Private-Sector Comp Time – Don’t Count On It! — The Labor & Employment Law Blog
- Classifying Gorsuch’s Views On Misclassification — Gig Employer Blog
- Are You Making These Common COBRA Mistakes? — HR Daily Advisor
Labor
- It’s Yuuge – Labor Law Update & Trump’s First 100 Days — CUE, Inc.
- NLRB: Many of your employee handbook policies are probably unlawful. — Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
- BuzzFeed, Unionize Before You Go Public! — Deadspin
- This Overlooked Labor Rule Could Be a Huge Drag on U.S. Businesses — Fortune
- The Saga Continues: NLRB’s Browning-Ferris Decision On Joint Employment Still Drawing Attention – This Time From Congress — Labor Relations
- NLRB panel majority upholds employer right to justify “no recording” policy; denies general counsel summary judgment motion — Employer Law Report
- Labor Racket Weekly: Embezzling Galore! — LaborPains.org
OSHA & Safety
- Prescription Drug Abuse in the Workplace — Workplace Insights
- Companies need workers — but people keep getting high — Wonkblog
- Trump’s Actual Impact on OSHA — Currents
- BWC Budget Passes House—Includes Pro-Business Improvements — Ohio Chamber Blog
- OSHA Proposes to Delay Electronic Submission of Injury and Illness Records — Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
- OSHA to Extend Electronic Recordkeeping Compliance Date — OSHA Law Blog
- Research: Workplace Injuries Are More Common When Companies Face Earnings Pressure — Harvard Business Review