The Finals are next Saturday night, February 29. Tickets are only $12 (including Rock Hall admission) and are available here. Aside from Fake ID participating, it really is one of Northeast Ohio's best music events of the year.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- How to fix the broken corporate approach to addressing sexual harassment — via Fortune
- Is one “N-word” severe enough to constitute a hostile work environment? A reader adds A surprising twist — via FisherBroyles
- Is “OK, Boomer” OK? — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Google faces a new investigation into whether it discriminated against a pregnant employee — via CNBC
- Why algorithms can be racist and sexist — via Vox
HR & Employee Relations
- 10 Things That Horrible Bosses Secretly Believe About Employees — via Forbes
- I had a secret relationship with a coworker and now I’m pregnant — via Ask a Manager
- House Passes Bill Restricting Employer Credit Checks — via Financial Services Employment Law
- How to Apply the “Golden Rule” to Giving Performance Feedback — via Blogging4Jobs
- Why You Need An Employee Handbook – The Devil Is In The Details — via Employment & Human Rights Law In Canada
Technology
- What’s Next in Human Resources Data Privacy and Compliance — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Employer wants me to block sites on my personal laptop — via Ask a Manager
- Top 10 Cybersecurity Checklist Items — via Vestige
- Cybersecurity Threat: Conversation Hijacking Shows 400% Increase — via Accellis Technology Group
- Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months — via Krebs on Security
Wage & Hour
- Au pair agency accused of stiffing consultants on OT pay — via Reuters
- Final joint-employer rule limits your company’s liability — via CFO Daily News
- U.S. House Wants The ABC Test Adopted On A National Scale. The Senate? Not So Much. — via Gig Employer Blog
- But, Eric, how can employees get FMLA if they are overseas? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
Labor
- NLRB’s Year-End Decisions Help Employers Start the New Decade Off Right — via HR Hero Line
- Google engineer’s complaint about diversity was protected, NLRB says — via HR Dive
- Another Tech Company Gets Unionized — via CUE, Inc.
- Kickstarter employees vote to unionize — via The Verge
- 2018 and 2019 hit a 35-year high for major strikes, this week in the war on workers — via Workplace Fairness
- DC Circuit on NLRB jurisdiction over religious universities — via Phil Miles’ Lawffice Space
- New Year, Same Old Union Corruption — via LaborPains.org
OSHA & Safety
- By the Numbers: The State of Mental Health in the Legal Industry — via Law.com
- Preventing Workplace Violence: How Can Employers Help? — via EntertainHR
- Preventing Issues with OSHA through Proactive Risk Management — via GMS Blog
- OSHA Tweaks 27 Standards and Regulations; Construction, Longshoring Among The Impacted — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog