I spent last Saturday night at Crocker Park, in Cleveland's western suburbs, watching Fake ID rock that luxury shopping mecca harder than I dare say it's ever been rocked before.
I could have watched Norah and her bandmates play all night long. I had to settle for an hour and 40 minutes of dad-pride.
Including this one—a scorching cover of Black Sabbath's classic, "War Pigs."
Here's what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Discrimination vs. Reality — via Heather Bussing at HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Episode 33 – Legal But Dumb — via Marc Alifanz's and Dennis Westlind's Hostile Work Environment Podcast
- Intertwined: The Labor Movement and LGBT Rights — via Workplace Fairness
- Religious Discrimination In The Workplace: Both Flavors — via FisherBroyles
- #MeToo? Everybody's having sex at work — via Robin Shea's Employment & Labor Insider
- Religious accommodation need not be employee’s preferred accommodation — via EmployerLINC
- Employer Probably Should “Give a f___ about” Employee’s Religion — via HR Hero Line
- EEOC Scrutinizes Employer Policies Regarding Prescription Drug Use — via Employment Law Lookout
Technology
- Workers fired after stirring tea with arm at Raising Cane's in Missouri — via WXYZ Detroit
- Employees spend 4 hours a week on websites unrelated to work — via HR Dive
- Redefining Security with Blockchain — via Dark Reading
- Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities—Why Bad Actors Target HR Departments — via EntertainHR
HR & Employee Relations
- Tough Conversations — via Kate Bischoff's tHRive Law & Consulting
- Is incivility a just response to cruelty? — via Minding the Workplace
- Employees and Candidates Give Companies a Taste of Their Own Medicine — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Don't Sue Former Employees If You Care About Reputation — via In House
- Should You Investigate Suspected Fraud? — via Tracy Coenen's FRAUDfiles
- The Anonymous Workplace Note That Said "You're Too Loud" — via Alison Green at Slate
- Puppy Perks in the Workplace — via California Employment Law
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Take Your Dog to Work Day — via TLNT
Wage & Hour
- Commuting Time Typically Not Compensable — Even in a Supercar — via Dan Schwartz's Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- How Best to Describe the Effect of Dynamex? Led Zeppelin Songs — via Who Is My Employee?
- Another Gig Economy Misclassification Win Delivered In New York, This Time For Postmates — via Gig Employer Blog
- Before you deny an employee’s request for more extended leave after FMLA expires, read this. — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
- Shattering Stereotypes: Cisco’s New Parental Leave Policy — via TalentCulture
Labor
- Janus v. AFSCME will advance workers’ rights. It won’t end public employee unions. — via Walter Olson's Overlawyered
- Court Rules Against Unions in Janus — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Give Thanks And Support To Labor Unions Before It's Too Late — via Donna Ballman's Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
- Headcount Reduction: NLRB Reportedly To Offer Buyouts In Effort To Trim Staff — via Labor Relations
OSHA & Safety
- Suicide and the Workplace — via Jonathan HR Law
- We’re Only Human 37: Taking a Different Approach to Safety Training — via upstartHR
- Your EAP Isn’t Enough to Shine a Spotlight on Mental Illness at Work — via Blogging4Jobs
- D is for Drugs: Employee Drug Use and What You Should Know — via Currents
- Six Key Rules of Workplace Health And Safety — via HR Gazette
- OSHA: Fla. Contractor Guilty of Safety Violations — via Joe's HR and Benefits Blog