So here’s Kermit the Frog (along with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Janet Weiss, Sleater-Kinney’s ex-drummer) performing the Muppets’ classic, Rainbow Connection, from his surprise performance at last weekend’s Newport Folk Festival.
(I really want to find the two people who thumbs-downed this video on YouTube.)
Here’s what I read this week.
Discrimination
- I Faced Down Workplace Discrimination—at a Top-Level Labor Law Firm — via Ms. Magazine
- How Unconscious Bias Led a Movie Theater to Kick out 100+ Disabled Children — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Arbitrator’s Alleged Bias Against Homosexuals Is Not Grounds to Reverse Award — via The Employment Brief
- Title VII Reversal: Fifth Circuit Holds No Transgender Protections Under Civil Rights Statute — via Labor Employment Law Blog
- Back to Basics: Everything HR needs to know about the EEOC — via HR Dive
- Does over-accommodating an employee’s disability expose your business to ADA claims? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Happy Anniversary ADA — via Understanding the ADA
- My Employee Is Offended By A Devil Tattoo — via Evil Skippy at Work
HR & Employee Relations
- We all do it. But is swearing at work really ok? — via CNN Business
- Finding Balance as a Dual-Career Couple — via Harvard Business Review
- When a workplace bully gets his comeuppance, should we be gleeful? — via Minding the Workplace
- 3.5 Warning Signs Of A Bully Boss And How To React — via Forbes
- Employment Law Checklist Project: Thou Shall Not Require Employees to be Sterilized As Condition of Employment — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Are Employees Really Slacking Off More Now? — via HR Hero Line
- Your Employees are Leaving. Do You REALLY Know Why? — via The SHRM Blog
Technology
- Beware of Phishing Attacks—Actionable Advice to Protect Your Company’s Data — via EntertainHR
- A Community of Legal Bloggers. All That Once Was Good and That Could Be Again — via Real Lawyers Have Blogs
- Texting at work — via Employment & Human Rights Law In Canada
- I’m addicted to snooping in my boss’s email — via Ask a Manager
Wage & Hour
- Drilling for dollars, retroactively, in wage-hour law — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- EVERYONE needs training on the Fair Labor Standards Act! — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- When Gig Workers Want Benefits, Should You Offer Them? — via SHRM Blog
- Democratic Presidential Contender’s New Plan Calls For Protections For Gig Workers — via Gig Employer Blog
- FMLA 2nd and 3rd Opinion Process: A powerful tool to manage intermittent FMLA — via Matrix Radar
Labor
- Recording Meeting In Office Protected by National Labor Relations Act — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Bernie’s bitter labor lesson — via New York Post
OSHA & Safety
- A Reckoning For Mental Health In The Legal Profession — via Above the Law
- When Stress Comes from Outside the Workplace, How Do Law Firms Respond? — via The American Lawyer
- Let’s Ride, Walmart’s Compliance Chief (and Cyclist) Urges Company Employees — via Corporate Counsel
Hi-ho, #NewportFolkFest! Thanks for showing this frog some love and singing along with the sweet sound of “Rainbow Connection.” Someday we’ll find it. 🌈 pic.twitter.com/LIK6KpqrPS— Kermit the Frog (@KermitTheFrog) July 29, 2019