WIRTW #570 (the “unexpected” edition)

I always assumed my kids would out-achieve me. I just never imagined it would happen by the 8th grade. 

Cleveland Magazine just named her band, Fake ID, Cleveland’s “Best Unexpected Rock Stars” in its 2019 Best of Cleveland issue.

It’s not everyday you witness a band of 12- to 15-year-olds absolutely wail on Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”

Yet there’s Fake ID, chugging through the sinister heavy metal classic with style and skill to spare, cresting a wave of pummeling sound…. Yes, the cover act’s ages often precludes bars and clubs from their tour dates, but Fake ID’s easy poise and undeniable chops tend to draw a crowd wherever they plug in.

You can read the rest of the story here, check out Fake ID at their website, and catch them performing at the Best of Cleveland Party at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on October 25.

Here’s what else I read this week:

Discrimination

• Job ads on Facebook discriminated against women and older workers, EEOC says — via Vox
• Jordan Peterson is in Rehab. Why HR and Managers Should Take Note — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Why Talking Remedies Is A Bad Idea — via Kate Bischoff’s tHRive Law & Consulting Blog
• How To Prevent and Correct Sexual Harassment By Customers — via FisherBroyles
• Ex-NAACP employee accuses supervisor of sexual harassment — via StarTribune
• Flake on Expanding Religious Accommodation — via Workplace Prof Blog
• When You Google Pay Discrimination–and Google Shows Up in Your Search…. — via The Emplawyerologist

HR & Employee Relations

• How Being a Working Parent Changes as Children Grow Up — via Harvard Business Review
• 5 must-read stories for HR managers grappling with caregiver demands — via HR Dive
• Taming a Toxic Workplace Culture — via SHRM Blog
• The ennui of the average worker — via Robin Schooling
• What are your best practices for working remotely? — via ABA Journal Daily News
• The New Employee – Employer Social Contract — via hr bartender

Technology

• Jones Day Uses Lawyerspeak To Try To Explain Away Botched Redaction. I Translate For You — via LawSites
• Pros and Cons of Employee Monitoring — via EntertainHR
• My boss excessively Photoshops herself on our company’s social media — via Ask a Manager
• Warshipping: A New Threat From the Packages Delivered to Your Office — via Ride The Lightning
• 7 Ways VPNs Can Turn from Ally to Threat — via Dark Reading

Wage & Hour

• The 10th Circuit Grants Re-Leaf to Workers Seeking Overtime Under the FLSA — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
• Trump’s New Labor Pick Eugene Scalia Will Be a Catastrophe For Workers Rights — via Workplace Fairness
• Even More about Gig Workers — via Compensation Cafe
• Federal Overtime Law Covers Marijuana Industry Workers: US Appeals Court — via Law.com - In-House Counsel
• Court slices FMLA retaliation claim of employee caught golfing while on leave — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog

Labor

• Google contract workers voted to unionize. The law isn’t on their side. — via MIT Technology Review
• NLRB Wants New Rule To Prevent Student Teaching Assistants From Joining Unions — via Who Is My Employee?
• Laboring Toward 2020 — via Labor Relations Institute

OSHA & Safety

• Criminal Charges For OSHA Violations? State Prosecutors Are Taking Increased Interest — via OH&S
• About that oh-so-French workers’ comp case — via Overlawyered
• How to Plan for an Organizational Emergency — via hr bartender
• Stood up: when an employer takes away your office chair — via Workplace Diva