Since we just celebrated Father’s Day, I thought I’d use this space to highlight some of the best posts I read this past week about working dads:
- For Working Dads, Workflex Works — via Next Blog
- Why Workplaces Need to Be Fairer to Working Dads — via Harvard Business Review
- Five fun facts about fathers (in the workplace) — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Fathers Day offers a chance to ponder the disadvantages faced by many working dads — via Insight
- 2018’s Best & Worst States for Working Dads — via WalletHub
- Stay-At-Home Dads Still Struggle With Diapers, Drool, Stigma And Isolation — via NPR
As for my dad, he received a new fanny pack (I understand they are very much back in style; thanks, Amazon Prime, for delivering the gift four days late).
Here’s what else I read this week:
- Court concludes that two co-workers’ alleged plot to murder an employee-plaintiff was not retaliation — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Eight State Attorneys General Urge Eighth Circuit Not To Expand Scope of Title VII — via Health Employment and Labor
- Why It’s NOT Good That Your Manager Just Handled a Sexual Harassment Complaint — via The Emplawyerologist
- What will really move the needle in improving harassment prevention? — via Currents
- Dangling High On An Oil Rig With The KKK Below To ‘Rescue’: Shocking Racial Harassment At Work — via Above the Law
- Does the EEOC Have Your E-mail Address? — via BeLabor The Point
Technology
- The WHO officially puts gaming on its list of addictions — via Engadget HD
- PennDOT Employee’s Facebook Rant Receives Constitutional Protection — via Lawffice Space
- Would You Use a Smart Contracts App? — via Technologist
- Cyber-Attacks: Does Company Size Matter? — via Accellis Technology Group
HR & Employee Relations
- What Do We Owe Each Other? — via Kate Bischoff’s tHRive Law & Consulting Blog
- The Very Common Things Cruel Managers Do — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- How to Master Workplace Civility #SHRM18 — via Workology
- The Trump Effect: Navigating the Minefield — via EntertainHR
- Trending Workplace Issues CFOs are Watching in 2018 — via HR Hero Line
Wage & Hour
- How managers cause FMLA lawsuits — and 10 ways to get them to stop — via HR Dive
- Why? Military Family Leave … Part 2. — via Michigan Employment Law
Labor
- How To Bring Back Unions? Give Unionized Companies A Tax Cut — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Employer Commits Unfair Labor Practice By Insisting on English-Only Proposal — via The Employment Brief
- It’s a Topsy-Turvy Workplace – Right Now, Common Sense is on Top — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
OSHA & Safety
- Workplace Deaths Are Rising. Trump-Era Budget Cuts Could Make It Worse. — via Workplace Fairness
- Marijuana in the workplace: Balancing competing obligations — via HR Dive
- OSHA Enforcement Memo for Crystalline Silica Standard in General Industry and Maritime — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog