It’s award season. The Grammys are this weekend, and the Oscars a few weeks later. About.com is also handing out some awards, albeit a lot less glamorously. The web portal is giving out its Human Resources Readers’ Choice Awards. It is asking people to nominate their favorite HR websites in various categories, including Best Site for HR Legal Information.
The nomination process is open until 11 p.m. EST on February 11. If there is an employment law blog you enjoy reading, its proprietor would appreciate your vote (even if it’s not me).
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- The EEOC on Lesbian/Gay Employees and Sex Discrimination — from Workplace Prof Blog
- I Believe, I Believe! A Vegan and a Flu Shot — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- The interactive process under the ADA: Informal? — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
- Can A Female Prison Guard Sue Prison Officials For Sexual Harassment By Inmates Who Were Allowed To Watch Violent and Sexually Explicit Movies? — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Think Employment Law Doesn’t Apply to You? Think Again. — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Case of Borat Discrimination for Make Benefit Glorious Resources of Humans — from The Employer Handbook Blog
- Top 6 Reasons Why Discrimination Laws Are Good For White Guys — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Your employees’ Facebook opinions – do they bring you into disrepute? — from WorkFace
- Watch What You Tweet: Proposed Social Media Guidance for Financial Institutions — from Socially Aware Blog
- Social media for lawyers : Is it hype or plain common sense? — from Real Lawyers Have Blogs
HR & Employee Relations
- Severance Agreements: Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow? Part I — from The Emplawyerologist
- Wishing You Workplace Civility In 2013 — from BLEG Blog
- 10 Steps To Take When Hiring From A Competitor — from Trade Secrets and Noncompete Blog
- How Many Hours Do You Work per Week (and How Much Is Too Much)? — from Lifehacker
- Having a Plan When Terminating an Employee Minimizes Risk — from Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
- Disgruntled employee spends three years destroying company computers with cleaning supplies — from The Verge
Wage & Hour
- Seventh Circuit Raises The Bar On Collective And Class Certification of Wage-Hour Claims — from The Wage and Hour Litigation Blog
- The Death of FLSA Class Actions Has Been Greatly Exaggerated — from Tim Eavenson’s Current Employment
- What you need to know about sick employees, time off, and paying them — from Employment Law Bits
- The Seven Reasons You Can Dock an Exempt Employee — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- DOL issues Final Rule on FMLA to address military, aviation amendments … and other things — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
Labor Relations
- Why the DC Circuit's NLRB Recess Appointments Decision Affects (Almost) Everyone — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Should Private Employers Still Worry About Unions and What Happens at the NLRB? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Labor Relations Today Releases 'Labor Law 2012: A Year in Review' — from Labor Relations Today
- Union violence and legal impunity — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered