WIRTW #466 (the “solo” edition)

I gotta give my girl credit. She’s got cohones (especially at the age of 11). Through a casual exam-chair conversation with her orthodontist, he learned that she plays music and she learned that he’s involved with an annual summer solstice music festival. From that, she booked herself her first ever solo gig. She spent the next day working up and running through six songs, and played to a mid-afternoon crowd outside our favorite French restaurant. And, like always, she was aces. Here a few highlights strung together medley-style.


And, if you’re local and crave the full band experience, the Major Minors play a full set from 1-3 tomorrow, during the Coventry Village Sidewalk Sale & Carnival Games Party (one of Cleveland.com’s “Top things to do in Cleveland this weekend.” They will rock the courtyard outside of the Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights (coincidentally, a mere block from my law school apartment).

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New blog alert: My friend, Marc Alifanz, recently started his own employment law and HR advisory business, Four Peaks Advisors, which, in turn, just launched its own blog—managermaude.com—which offers employment law lessons in creative cartoon form. In the first installment, Madame Cloque, a wage-and-hour superhero, offers a lesson on the dangers of unpaid off-the-clock work. Please check out Marc’s blog. It’s definitely worth adding your blogs-to-follow list.

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Here’s what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Recommendations for Uber Are Roadmap for All? — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Bloomberg’s in depth coverage of social media sex shenanigans at work is too good not to share — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
• Sixth Circuit Shuts Down EEOC’s Appeal In Sex Harassment Suit — via Workplace Class Action Litigation
• Does A Corporate Dress Policy Trump Religious Grooming Requirements? — via FisherBroyles
• Retaliation, “but for” causation, and the prima facie elements — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
• Company’s Desire for a “New Face” Does Not Prove Age Discrimination — via Minnesota Employment Law Report
• 4th Circuit Holds Employer’s Refusal to Accommodate Employee’s Religious Accommodation Against Using Hand Scanner Violated Title VII — via Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog

Technology

• Why Do People Watch Porn at Work? — via TalentCulture
• “Lawsuit Claims Bank Is Responsible for Employee Sending Naked Photo on LinkedIn” — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
• Social Media – Truth Serum in an Age of Alternative Facts? — via Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
• Your Spouse Criticizes Your Boss On Social Media: Can You Get Fired For That? — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
• Why Are You Keeping Your Team Off Social Media? — via Next Blog
• Website Accessibility Case Goes to Verdict and it is Not in Favor of Defendant — via Bill Goren’s Understanding the ADA
• Cybersecurity Fact vs. Fiction — via Dark Reading

HR & Employee Relations

• Can you fire an employee for off-duty misconduct? You betcha! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
• The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit: It Should Be Easy to Poach Talent, But Not IP — via Harvard Business Review
• Is Unlimited PTO Just a Scam Not to Pay Out Accrued Vacation and Sick Time? — via Fistful of Talent
• Is The Stipulated Irreparable Harm Clause In Your Covenant Not To Compete Worth The Paper It Is Written On? — via Delaware Non-Compete Law Blog
• My Co-Worker Stores Breast Milk In Our Office Refrigerator — via Evil Skippy at Work
• After-Hours Work Emails Shrink Our Personal Lives — via InhouseBlog.com

Wage & Hour

• Former Amazon Warehouse Manager Says He’s Owed Overtime Pay — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Joint Employment Is Like Taking Steroids By Accident — via Who Is My Employee? 
• Not Yet Time To Pop Champagne Corks After IC Guidance Withdrawn — via Gig Employer Blog
• There’s No Crying at Work! But if an Employee Does Cry, Is That Sufficient Notice of the Need for FMLA Leave? — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights

Labor

• Murphy Oil’s law: Solicitor General’s office reverses course in arbitration cases, supports employers — via SCOTUSblog
• Can you swear in the workplace and get away with it? — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
• Can I Get Your Digits? NLRB Ruling Expands Quickie Election Rules To Cover Supervisors’ Possession Of Employee Phone Numbers — via Labor Relations
• Trump Labor Policy Reforms Begin To Take Shape — via CUE, Inc.
• The NLRB Defines “Available” in Yet Another Slanted Decision — via Workforce Freedom Initiative
• Labor & Employment Quick Takes: The NLRB: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Headed? — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
• The Employee Rights Act Goes to a Hearing — via LaborPains.org
• NLRB Holds Supervisor’s Text Messages to Employee Were Unlawful Interrogations –Rejects Employer’s Argument for “Safe Harbor” — via Management Memo