My four word, spoiler-free review: Go now! (Bring tissues.)
My slightly longer, still spoiler-free review: Lots and lots of tissues.
My even longer, yet still spoiler-free review: Nostalgia has a very strong pull. It’s apt that much of this movie takes place in an antique shop, a place that’s all about nostalgia. Toy Story is extraordinarily nostalgic for my family, and if this is end of the road for the series, I can’t imagine a better ending.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- LGBTQ Employees Face A Double Stigma — via FisherBroyles
- Seventh Circuit Weighs In On Obesity Disability Debate — via The Employment Brief
- White People And The N-Word: A Complicated Relationship? — via Above the Law
- Accommodating Nut Allergies — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
- When it comes to avoiding claims of age discrimination, consider the optics — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Litigating Sex Harassment in the #MeToo Era — via California Employment Law
- “Dads in the workplace” quiz! — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
HR & Employee Relations
- Workism: Employees Need to Understand the Role of Work In Their Lives — via hr bartender
- Whatever You Do, Don’t Let a Customer Service Mistake Fester — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- How to shut down gossip at work — via Ask a Manager
- Using Severance Packages to Manage Problem Employees Out of Your Workforce — via EntertainHR
- The new rules of today’s multigenerational workforce — via Laurie Ruettimann
Technology
- You Better Treat Your Machines With Respect — via HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Are you using your data collected by AI ethically? Probably not! — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Cybersecurity Accountability Spread Thin in the C-Suite — via Dark Reading
- Platforms and Blockchain Will Transform Logistics — via Harvard Business Review
Wage & Hour
- Deep Breaths about Wage Theft — via Kate Bischoff’s tHRive Law & Consulting Blog
- Congress makes minimum wage history, going the longest without an increase since 1938 — via Workplace Fairness
- A Four Day Workweek? — via BeLabor The Point
- After Robert R Died, the State Agency Kept Sending Him Assessments. Then I Did This… — via Who Is My Employee?
- Factors in Classifying Contractors vs. Employees — via HR Hero Line
- Gig Workers Get New Allies In Fight For Better Pay And Workplace Rights: Uber And Lyft — via Gig Employer Blog
Labor
- NLRB Rules That Employer’s Exclusion of Union Employees From Paid Holiday Granted to Non-Union Employees is Lawful — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- NLRB Rebalances Employers’ Rights to Prohibit Union Solicitation on Their Property — via Management Memo
OSHA & Safety
- How to Create a Workplace that Supports Mental Health — via The HR Gazette
- The Occupational Phenomenon Called Employee Burnout — via SHRM Blog
- A Welcome Shift in How State Bars Are Addressing Mental Health — via Attorney at Work
- How to Create a Workplace that Promotes Mental Health — via HR Hero Line
- Health is Wealth even for Remote Workers: Tips to Keep Healthy While Working At Home — via Take It Personel-ly
- How To Improve Workplace Safety — via Texas Labor Law Blog
- Workplace Safety Do’s and Don’ts — via GMS Blog
- Hitting the Grass Ceiling: More Laws, Less Clarity About Marijuana in the Workplace — via The Emplawyerologist, Janette Levey Frisch
- Nevada Blazes a Path; First State to Ban Pre-Employment Marijuana Testing — via Employment Law Worldview