His answer? 669.
What does that mean? According to The Telegraph—
“We want 669 in life. What is 669? Six times in six days; the emphasis is on nine,” he said at a company gathering, referring to sex, and using a play on words, as the word “nine” in Mandarin is a homophone for the word “long.”
He wants his employees to have long sex six times every six days.
And you thought American employers had issues?
Here’s what else I read this week.
Here’s what else I read this week.
Discrimination
- Is it ok to ask a lesbian co-worker to use her ‘gaydar’ to determine whether a new client is also gay? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- “Moms in the Workplace” quiz! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- The No. 1 Way To Stop Workplace Harassment — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Can She Bring Those Dragons Anywhere? — via EntertainHR
- EEOC: Limits on Bathroom Breaks for Product Demonstrators at Costco Store Violates ADA — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- Managing Spirituality Initiatives in the American Workplace — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- Pregnancy Is An Awkward Fit For The ‘Just Do It’ Mentality — via Deadspin
HR & Employee Relations
- When you are the coworker who doesn’t watch Game of Thrones — via Workplace Diva
- Should I Suspend an Employee While I Investigate? — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Toxic Workplaces: A Survival Guide — via HR Gazette
- Stand Up for Yourself Without Getting Fired — via HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Bullying and sexual harassment ‘are rife in the legal profession,’ global survey finds — via ABA Journal Daily News
Technology
- You’re fired! A workplace YouTube prank goes wrong — via Workplace Diva
- Voice Recognition Still Has Significant Race and Gender Biases — via Harvard Business Review
- What’s an ‘Information Governance Plan’ and Why Does Your company Need It? — via In House
- Avoiding The ‘Data Liability Trap’: Protecting Against Third-Party Data Security Risks — via Above the Law
- Missing in Action: Cybersecurity Professionals — via Dark Reading
Wage & Hour
- DOL Extends Comment Periods for Proposed Joint Employer and Regular Rate Regulations — via Wage and Hour Law Update
- Are Employers Required to Pay Interns? — via Stoel Rives World of Employment
- Paying Tipped Employees: A Nightmare — via Texas Labor Law Blog
- Appeals court OKs prorated bonus for worker on FMLA leave — via HR Dive
Labor
- Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren blast Delta’s union-busting in letter to CEO — via Workplace Fairness
- Delta’s Anti-Union Backlash — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Good Step For Gig Companies: Advice Memo From NLRB’s General Counsel Concludes That Uber Drivers Are Contractors — via Gig Employer Blog
OSHA & Safety
- To Pee or Not to Pee — via Kate Bischoff's tHRive Law & Consulting Blog
- Dear Staff, Just Because It’s Legal, Doesn’t Mean you Can Smoke It At Work – Sincerely, HR — via Fistful of Talent
- House Pushes OSHA to Create a Standard Concerning Workplace Violence in the Healthcare Sector — via OSHA Law Blog
- Filed a Workers’ Compensation Claim and Fired? It Isn’t Necessarily Workers’ Compensation Retaliation. — via Employers Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
* Image by UNclimatechange from Bonn, Germany [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons