Here's what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Want to Stop Discrimination and Harassment? Be More Like Monica Lewinsky — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- My Employee Signed A Severance Agreement. So Why Is S/he Suing Me? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Employers may need to accommodate claims of “digital addiction” — via Walter Olson's Overlawyered
- So, you want to change the essential functions of a particular job, do you? Let’s talk ADA. — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
- New EEOC Miami Policy: No Opportunity For Employees To Respond — via Donna Ballman's Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
- Is the sexual harassment "groundswell" starting? — via Robin Shea's Employment & Labor Insider
- OFCCP Issues New Directive for Analyzing Compensation — via Currents
Technology
- Attackers Employ Social Engineering to Distribute New Banking Trojan — via Dark Reading
- Who controls your data? — via Engadget
HR & Employee Relations
- Episode 43 – Slavery: Still Bad — via Marc Alifanz's and Dennis Westlind's Hostile Work Environment Podcast
- We Need a Real Conversation About the Workplace — via Next Blog
- Have we entered an “era of empathy” at work? (Uh, well, at least not yet) — via Minding the Workplace
- 3 Reforms for Non-Disclosure Agreements — via TLNT
Wage & Hour
- Compliance Issues for Restaurants with Credit Card Fees, Tips to Waitstaff and Tip Pooling — via Dan Schwartz's Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- DC restaurant group settles 962 servers' wage claims for $1.49M — via HR Dive
- Wage and Hour Compliance – Better Guard Your Own Parking Spot — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- BREAKING: Get Your New FMLA Forms from the DOL Here! — via Jeff Nowak's FMLA Insights
Labor
- Unions — via What About Clients?
- Labor of Love: Thanking the Labor Movement for MOMumental victories — via MomsRising
OSHA & Safety
- Angelica Decision (Finally) Enhances OSHA’s Burden to Establish a Repeat Citation — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
- These roofers keep getting put in risky places, feds say. So their bosses must pay — via Miami Herald