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Here's what I read this week.
Discrimination
- Avoiding Gender Discrimination: Train Your Team on Using Correct Pronouns — via EntertainHR
- Second-guessing the advice columns: The morning after the workplace party — via Employment & Labor Insider
- A disabled ex-employee is suing Apple over claims of unfair dismissal — via TiPb
- Nuclear Power Company Avoids ADA Discrimination Claim Meltdown — via Employment Law Lookout
- ADA Pleading Tips — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
HR & Employee Relations
- Forcing a smile at work leads to drinking at home, study suggests — via Boy Genius Report
- A 30-Minute Commute Is All Most People Are Willing to Take — via SHRM Blog
- Gaslighting exists, and it’s horrible, so we should invoke the term carefully — via Minding the Workplace
- Trending in 2020: The (Somewhat) New Workplace — via TalentCulture
Technology
- A worker complained on Twitter about a $6 holiday gift from his employer. It didn’t end well. — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
- Uncoded Bias in AI Hiring — via HR Examiner
- 5 Cybersecurity Takeaways From 2019 — via Accellis Technology Group
- The Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft — via Krebs on Security
- Right Now, Hackers Are Interacting with Your Employees—Are They Prepared? — via HR Hero Line
- IoT Security: How Far We've Come, How Far We Have to Go — via Dark Reading
- If You’ve Got Discoverable Data In Slack, You’re Gonna Want To Read This — via Above the Law
- Ninth Circuit Doubles Down on Bad Ruling That Undermines Cybersecurity–Enigma v. Malwarebytes — via Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Wage & Hour
- Illegal Internship: Two Years of Experience, No Salary, No Equity — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- The new overtime law is here — if you earn less than $35,568, read this — via Ask a Manager
- DOL Releases Final Rule Updating the Regular Rate and Basic Rate Requirements Effective January 15, 2020 — via Wyatt Employment Law Report
- As Other States Throw Up Roadblocks, Tennessee Makes Changes To Boost Gig Economy — via Gig Employer Blog
- Judge Denies TRO to Freelance Journalists and Photographers Seeking Relief From California’s Controversial Independent Contractor Statute — via Wage & Hour Defense Blog
- WHD Issues Its First Opinion Letters of the … Decade — via The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
Labor
- The Property Problem in the NLRB's Email Case — via Workplace Prof Blog
- Back to Basics: Get to know the NLRA — it's not just for unionized employers — via HR Dive
- Labor 101 for Undergraduate Workers Seeking To Unionize — via Workplace Fairness
OSHA & Safety
- Drug Testing Best Practices in the Wake of Cannabis Legalization — via EntertainHR
- Best Practices for Investigating Whether Your Employee Was Hurt at Work — via HR Hero Line
- Delta employees allege Lands' End-provided uniforms caused illnesses — via HR Dive
- OSHA Standard Interpretation Repeats Vague Warnings on Employee Use of Headphones in the Workplace — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog