WIRTW #541 (the “Purl” edition)

Purl is an online-only Pixar short about a ball of yarn appropriately named Purl who gets a job in a bro-tastic workplace. As the only female, and only ball of yarn, working at B.R.O. Capital, she struggles to fit and yearns for acceptance from her all male, all human, co-workers. Purl's story has a lot to say about diversity and inclusion, and is well worth the just under nine minutes of your time.


Here's what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Ageism: A White Man’s Introduction To Discrimination — via PIC: The Defiant Ones 
• Like Grief — via Kate Bischoff's tHRive Law & Consulting Blog
• UPS on Hook for $4.9M in Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Over Appearance Policies — via Joe's HR and Benefits Blog
• EEOC: The equal-opportunity-groper defense is a bad one — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog 
• Nice Guys End Up in Court — via Minnesota Employment Law Report 
• What retaliation standard applies to employers? — via EmployerLINC 

HR &Employee Relations

• Your Company Needs a Better Retention Plan for Working Parents — via Harvard Business Review
• Can HR Fire Me? — via Laurie Ruettimann 
• Workplace Bullying, the New Normal? — via Fistful of Talent
• Workplace bullying: Should “creative” folks get a pass? (Uh, no) — via Minding the Workplace
• 4 Day Work Week — via Take It Personel-ly
• Three Golden Rules for Millennials in the Workplace — via HR Hero Line
• I Love HR — via My Dailey Journey

Technology

• On Facebook’s 15th birthday, we should be talking about its size — via The Verge
• I Was Disciplined Because Of The Password Policy — via Evil Skippy at Work
• Improving Cybersecurity Means Taking More Care with What We Digitize — via Harvard Business Review
• 8 Cybersecurity Myths Debunked and IoT Security's Coming of Age Is Overdue — via Dark Reading
• Ransomeware’s Dirty Little Secret: Most Corporate Victims Pay — via The D & O Diary
• Does Your Cyber Insurance Cover Regulatory Investigations and Fines? — via Ride The Lightning
• FaceTime Bug Allegedly Allowed Secret Recording of Deposition and More — via Technologist

Wage & Hour

• Please Stop Punishing Employees for the Polar Vortex— via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Strippers Say They’re Losing Their Shirts Due to Misclassification Wins — via Who Is My Employee?
• Trump labor board declares open season on 'independent contractors' this week in the war on workers — via Workplace Fairness

Labor

• UPS Teamster Tyler Binder posted a 12-minute video, “Why the UPS 2018 contract sucks!” on YouTube because he wanted to ... — via Matt Austin Labor Law
• Former NLRB Chairman Pearce Withdraws From Consideration for Open Board Seat — via Employment Law Worldview

OSHA & Safety

• What (NOT) To Do When Your Employee Gets Injured on the Job… — via The Emplawyerologist 
• Facebook to tie employee bonuses to safe — via HR Dive 
• The Hidden Costs of an OSHA Citation — via OSHA Law Blog
• Considerations in Drafting a Policy On Workplace Violence — via EntertainHR