How do we raise our girls to become confident women? It’s a question I think about a lot as a dad to an almost teenage girl.
🙋♀️ We encourage them to pursue their passions.
🙋♀️ We get them working collaboratively with other girls.
🙋♀️ We put them into positions to gain leadership skills.
🙋♀️ We praise their successes.
While I love School of Rock for both of my kids, this is why I especially love it for my daughter.
To see an almost 13-year-old (everyone wish Norah a Happy Birth Day for Monday) command a stage with skill and passion, and with the love, respect, and admiration of her peers, older and younger, fills this dad with a ton of pride and joy.
And it tells me that she’ll be just fine as an adult, whether her journey is through music or otherwise.
So enjoy Norah doing her thing last weekend (along with Donovan’s fly dance moves), taking the lead on Triumph by the Screaming Females.
As for Norah’s own band, Fake ID, you have two chances to see them live over the next few weeks.
- June 1 @ Ohio Bike Week, in Sandusky. They’ll be on the Scott Gast Memorial Stage, at Columbus Ave. and Water St., from 3:30 - 5 pm.
- June 15 @ Crocker Park, in Westlake. They’ll be rocking the square in front of Regal Cinemas from 5:30 - 7 pm.
Both shows are open to the public and free. Keep an eye out for the merch table to grab your official Fake ID t-shirt.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- McDonald’s Faces 23 New Sexual Harassment Complaints — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Survey finds a #MeToo backlash is underway in the workplace — via Workplace Diva
- Keep Harassment Policies in Mind During Summer Events Outside the Workplace — via Employer Defense Law Blog
- “Proselytise” (vb): (1) to advocate, persuade, cause to adopt; (2) to take material risks with your continued employment — via Employment Law Worldview
- Litigation Support Company Hit With Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit — via Above the Law
- The House passed the Equality Act to protect LGBT rights at work. Here’s why it won’t become law. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Arthur’s Gay Wedding Episode Banned by Alabama Public Television — via TVLine
HR & Employee Relations
- Employment Litigation Lessons from the Game of Thrones Finale — via California Employment Law
- Game of Thrones’ final season has cost employers $3.3 billion in lost productivity — via Consequence of Sound
- Pet-Friendly Workplaces Are a Win-Win For Employee Wellbeing And For Business — via Forbes
- Office Press Conference — via HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Dear Staff, Just Because It’s Legal, Doesn’t Mean You Can Smoke It At Work – Sincerely, HR — via Fistful of Talent
- Workplace bullying: Does adversity nurture compassion? — via Minding the Workplace
- Funeral Home and Former Employee Sued for Trade Secret Misappropriation — via Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Technology
- Employer-Issued Fitness Trackers Are All the Rage — But Are Your Privacy Practices Up to Snuff? — via Recruiter
- Here Are the Best Account Security Methods, According to Google — via Lifehacker
- The 3 Cybersecurity Rules of Trust — via Dark Reading
- Court Rejects Service of Process Via Amazon Messaging – Noco v. Chang — via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Wage & Hour
- Steak ‘N Shake Makes a $7.7 Million Error. (You’re Probably Making the Same Error.) — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Courts Reject Wage and Hour Claims as Employment-Related Misrepresentation Theory — via The D & O Diary
- Labor Department Faces Blowback After Gig Economy Opinion Letter — via Gig Employer Blog
- Follow The Company Rule To Request FMLA. No, The Other One. — via The Employment Brief
Labor
- Two Takeaways: Employer Can Limit Union Participation During Employee Interview and Union Lawyer Can Be Weingarten Representative Although Employee’s Private Lawyer Cannot — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- The Green New Deal is fracturing a critical base for Democrats: unions — via Vox
- To Post or Not to Post: NLRB, Social Media & the Workplace — via JD Supra
- NLRB: 6 reasons to check your handbook policies now — via HR Morning
OSHA & Safety
- Holy Smoke! Health Care Employers Must Abate Surgical Smoke Hazards in the Operating Room — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
- OSHA Requests Information on Potential Changes to Lockout/Tagout Standard Including Addressing Robotic Technology — via OSHA Law Blog
- Defend an Alleged Safety Violation Like You’re Playing LeBron James — via Employers Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
- Distressed workers are unproductive one-third of the time they’re at work — via HR Dive
- What Anxiety Does to Us at Work — via Harvard Business Review