WIRTW #640: the “Wickens Workshop” edition

When you take over a practice group and are tasked with building it, you naturally have to think of ways to market and grow it. Presenting semi-regular seminars for clients, prospective clients, and referral sources was low hanging fruit. I can talk about employment law all day long. Just give me a topic, a microphone, and an audience, wind me up, and let me go to work. Thankfully, my cohorts in our Employment & Labor Practice Group feel the same way. 

Thus, Wickens Workshops were born. (Full credit to Matt Danese for the alliterative branding.) Our next event, discussing employee leave of absence issues, will take place on Oct. 20 from 8–10 am.

While imitation is always the sincerest form of flattery, sharing this idea with my co-workers is hardly imitation. It's just smart business. Thus, the Wickens Workshops branding has expanded to include our Business Restructuring & Bankruptcy and Intellectual Property practice groups, which will hold events on the mornings of Nov. 15 and Jan. 18, 2023, respectively. We now have a full-blown series of panel discussions covering a variety of legal areas and topics. 

I hope you can join us. Stay tuned for registration information for each of these events.

Also, if you'd like to hear me speak before our Oct. 20th Workshop, tune in to Lunch Conversations with Randy & Teddy on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from noon to 1 pm, when I'll be discussing all things labor and employment law.

Here's what I read this past week that I think you should be reading, too.

Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees — via Harvard Business Review

"Quiet Quitting" Isn’t New! — via The Tim Sackett Project

We need to dig beneath generic references to "toxic workplaces" — via Minding the Workplace

Worried about Recession? Companies Cut Paid Maternity Leave — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas

When "Doomsday" Hits — The Pandemic Rages On (Sort of?) — via Dan Schwartz's Connecticut Employment Law Blog

Up to 4M US workers could be sidelined by long COVID-19 — via HR Dive

What Does a Baseball Road Trip Teach Us About Bugging an Employee While They Take FMLA Leave? — via Jeff Nowak's FMLA Insights

Crikey! Can an employee bring an emotional support alligator to work? 🐊 — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog

Employers: Gun rights in the workplace are back on the agenda — via TLNT

Workplace Monitoring Is Commonplace in The Legal Industry — via Above the Law

Is it bad to be alone with coworkers of the opposite sex? — via Ask a Manager

Etsy sellers are starting a 'union' to fight policies they say hurt merchants — via The Verge