While I've always loved Aretha's music, and her voice, and her soul, I never appreciated until watching yesterday's tributes how key of a role she played in the civil rights movement.
Rest in peace Queen of Soul. Your message and your spirit will be missed as much as your voice.
Rest in peace Queen of Soul. Your message and your spirit will be missed as much as your voice.
Here's what I read this week:
- Episode 40 – C U Next Monday — via Marc Alifanz's and Dennis Westlind's Hostile Work Environment Podcast
- Hostile work environment, or just NSFW? — via Robin Shea's Employment & Labor Insider
- Religious Institutions Do Not Get Immunity from State Anti-Discrimination Laws — via Dan Schwartz's Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- EEOC to Airline—When You Receive a Sexual Harassment Complaint, Do Something About It! — via FisherBroyles
- When Can You Say No to Religious Garb in the Workplace? — via HR Hero Line
- First Circuit Holds University’s Response To Sex Harassment Is Retaliation — via The Employment Brief
- When Are Shareholders Also Employees? (Disney-Themed Version) — via Who Is My Employee?
- If You Don’t Have ADA Anti-discrimination Policies, You are Strongly Encouraged to put them in Place — via Understanding the ADA
Technology
- Faxploit: Is Your Fax Machine at Risk? — via Accellis Technology Group
- Do You Know What’s Lurking in Your Company’s Private Messages? — via Workology
- What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI? — via Harvard Business Review
- Measuring Success in Cybersecurity — via Law.com
- How Much Easier Things Would Be With an HR Siri — via TLNT
- Is Blockchain Technology The Next Big Thing? Or Will It Fail To Live Up To The Hype? — via Above the Law
- The Enigma of AI & Cybersecurity — via Dark Reading
- Future Friday: Do algorithms actually reduce biases? — via Mike Haberman's Omega HR Solutions
HR & Employee Relations
- Why Omarosa Manigault Newman’s Recordings Should Terrify All Business Owners — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Study: Blurred lines between work and home harm workers and their families — via HR Dive
- Poppy seed bagel triggers drug test (again), CPS gets involved (again) — via Walter Olson's Overlawyered
- NJ federal court: Employers don’t have to excuse medical marijuana users from taking workplace drug tests — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
- Employees Purring over ‘Pawternity Leave’ and other Pet-Supportive Benefits — via HR Hero Line
- Mindfulness and Meditation Might Be Bad For Your Company — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
Wage & Hour
- 6th Circuit says FLSA does not trump arbitration agreements, citing Epic ruling — via Reuters
- When Will the U.S. Finally Act Boldly on Paid Family Leave? — via Harvard Business Review
Labor
- Catch-22: To Give or Not to Give Raises and Bonuses after Employees Unionize — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- NLRB To Renegotiate … Its Own CBA! — via Labor Relations
- Court OK’s Employee Picketing at Hospital Entrances — via Minnesota Employment Law Report