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Here's what I read this week.
Discrimination
- Supreme Court poised to drastically reverse LGBTQ equality — via Workplace Fairness
- Title VII and LGBT Rights: The Current Landscape (US) — via Employment Law Worldview
- Pregnancy Discrimination of Female Warehouse Workers: A Male’s Point of View — via The L•E•Jer
- Harassment interviews conducted by AI? — via Robin Shea's Employment & Labor Insider
- When Does Title VII Protect “Perceived As” Claims Based On Race? — via FisherBroyles
- Employee Who Copies Personnel Records Loses Retaliation Claim — via The Employment Brief
- Supreme Court Declines To Hear Seventh Circuit Ministerial Exception Appeal — via Currents
Technology
- More companies are chipping their workers like pets — via Engadget
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Emojis and the Law — via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
- Who Owns Your Company’s Social Media Accounts? — via EntertainHR
- Starbucks says it’ll block porn on its public Wi-Fi next year — via The Verge
- Data Breach Threats Bigger Than Ever and It's Time to Build a Cyber Panic Room — via Dark Reading
- Cybersecurity, Confidentiality, And Your Ethical Obligations To Your Clients (Part II) — via Above the Law
- Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock — via Krebs on Security
HR & Employee Relations
- The Benefits of Laughing in the Office — via Harvard Business Review
- It Matters What You Do For Parents After the Baby Is Born — via TLNT
- ho ho no … real-life holiday workplace debacles — via Ask a Manager
- Snow Days and Employees! — via The Tim Sackett Project
- Work-Life Balance – The Essentials — via Lawyerist
Wage & Hour
- Do you have to pay overtime to a drug dealer? — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
- Can a New Manager Require Exempt Employees to Clock In? — via Suzanne Lucas, Evil HR Lady
- A Christmas Poem: ‘Twas the Night Before an Independent Contractor Misclassification Ruling — via Who Is My Employee?
- Increasing Trend Independent Contractors Not Slowing Down — via HR Hero Line
- Can You Eliminate a Position…After the Employee Returns from FMLA Leave? — via Janette Levey Frisch's The Emplawyerologist
Labor
- Google employees raise more than $200,000 in pledges for strike fund — via The Verge
- Do Employee Safety Policies Require Negotiation With A Union? — via Labor Relations
OSHA & Safety
- Fifth Circuit Last to Uphold OSHA’s Multi-Employer Worksite Doctrine — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
- Workplace Safety Procedures and Ways to Motivate Employees — via The HR Gazette
- New Bill Seeks to Protect Health Care and Social Service Workers from Workplace Violence — via Workplace Fairness
- OSHA Has a “Naughty” List – And Nearly One-Third of Large Employers Are on It. Are You? — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- Workplace Injuries and Illnesses Continue to Decline — via OSHA Law Blog
- 2019 workplace trends: The pedal desk — via Workplace Diva