If I had gotten paid for my appearance on Matt Christensen‘s Fraud Not Frog podcast, I could classify it as a side hustle. But I didn’t; I appeared gratis to discuss the legal concerns businesses and employees need to consider when an employee wants to engage in a side hustle.
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Here’s what I read this week.
Discrimination
- “Okay, Boomer” in the Workplace Can Get You Fired — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- “OK Boomer?” HR law to the rescue! — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- #WorkTrends: Ageism and Its Impact on the Modern Worker — via TalentCulture
- Employers, Are Your Supervisors Prepared for Accommodation Requests for Mental Health Issues? — via FisherBroyles
- Do Lawsuits Improve Gender and Racial Equality at Work? — via Harvard Business Review
- Most women say the post-#MeToo workplace is unchanged — or worse — via HR Dive
- McDonald’s Is Sued Over ‘Systemic Sexual Harassment’ Of Female Workers — via NPR’s All Things Considered
- Disability Discrimination, Joint Employment and the EEOC– Oh My! — via Janette Levey Frisch's EmpLAWyerologist Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- Protecting Against Workplace Bullying — via HR Hero Line
- Civility In Litigation: A Dying Art — via Above the Law
- Termination of McDonald’s CEO Highlights Changing Workplace Attitudes — via Labor & Employment Law Navigator
- Employers Should Set Guidelines for Political Diversity in the Workplace — via USA Today
- My coworker wants “pawternity” leave — via Ask a Manager
- 50 State Desktop Reference: What Businesses Need to Know about Non-Competes and Trade Secrets Law — via Trading Secrets
Technology
- Technology and the New World of Work — via Harvard Business Review
- How The Internet Of Things Will Turn Us Into Connected Workers — via Forbes
- Why Cyber-Risk Is a C-Suite Issue and Cybersecurity: An Organizationwide Responsibility — via Dark Reading
- Iowa paid a security firm to break into a courthouse, then arrested employees when they succeeded — via CNBC
- Apple Store employee fired after stealing an intimate photo from a customer’s iPhone — via BGR
Wage & Hour
- Correctly Classifying Seasonal Employees — via SHRM Blog
- The DOL plans to make it easier for you to pay bonuses while using the fluctuating workweek — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
Labor
- EEOC urges NLRB to let employers prevent, punish harassment — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- If you are a unionized journalist, this labor ruling should worry you — via Vox
- NLRB Moves Closer to Changing Standard for Employees’ Offensive Speech and Conduct — via Employment Law Worldview
OSHA & Safety
- Company Culture and Characteristics of a Healthy Workplace — via HR Gazette
- Study: Injured retail workers are out an average 24 days — via HR Dive
- The Case for Young Employees to File for Workers Comp — via Workology
- Marijuana Breathalyzers: Could New Testing Methods Help Employers And Employees? — via Employment Law Lookout
- OSHA Releases Two New Temporary Worker Guidance Documents — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog