Here’s what I read this week:
- Second-guessing the advice columns on workplace law — again! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- “In Bias Cases, Gorsuch Subpar for the Course” — via How Appealing
- Requests for Accommodation Under FMLA and ADA — via San Antonio Employment Law Blog
- Engendering Transgenderism In The Modern Workplace — via HR Gazette
Technology
- Addicted to the Internet? — via Technologist
- Why Annual Social Media Policy Reviews Are Necessary — via TalentCulture
- Epidemic: Hackers Insert Cyber Attacks in Social Media Posts — via Ride The Lightning
- Cybersecurity Faces 1.8 Million Worker Shortfall By 2022 — via Dark Reading
- Ransomware: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — via Law.com
- What Employers Need to Know about Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation — via Privacy Law Blog
- Court Rules Emoji Can Convey Intent — via Above the Law
HR & Employee Relations
- Does Your Employee Handbook Need a Midyear Checkup? — via Next Blog
- Is a 4-day workweek the key to employee engagement? — via Ragan.com
- The Future of Employee Relations — via CUE, Inc.
- At This Company, 40 Hours Means 40 Hours — via TLNT
- Five reasons why HR needs a more critical role in your company than it currently has — via California Employment Law Report
- When Can I Ask For My Dead Co-Worker’s Desk? — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Non-Competes Can Cost You More Than A Job — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- Protecting Your Company and Your Employees During an ICE Raid — via Stoel Rives World of Employment
Wage & Hour
- DOL Expected to Issue Request for Information on OT Rules — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- Injunction? What injunction? New class action suit claims employer violated the new DOL overtime rules — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished – The Supreme Court May Decide Whether Payments for Meal Breaks Can Offset Alleged Off-The-Clock Work — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- Court: Temps May Not be “Employees” Under Workers Compensation Law, Allowing Lawsuit — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Independent Contractor or Employee? - Construction Workplace Misclassification Act — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- 5 Signs Your Independent Contractor May Be Properly Classified — via Who Is My Employee?
- Joint Liability for Franchisors? — via The Labor Dish
- Wage retaliation is a big “NO-NO” — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
Labor
- Should You Say Good Bye to Arbitration Agreements and Recording Bans? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Misclassified Logic at the NLRB — via Workforce Freedom Initiative
- Congressional Leaders Ask Trump to Fill Long-Standing Vacancies at the NLRB — via Labor Relations
- “New challenge to labor union support fees” — via How Appealing
- Whose Law is it Anyway? NLRB Region’s Complaint Seeking to Have Contractors Converted to Employees Throws Agency into the Misclassification Fray with the IRS and DOL — via Labor Relations