Passover starts at sundown tonight. I have nothing employment-related for this tidbit of information (don’t treat your workers like the pharaoh treated his, or you will likely face the 11th plague, litigation?). But, it does give me an excuse to play the following, which also happens to be one of the few SFW clips in the eight-seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- What Baggage Does The Employment Attorney Carry? — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- You may know where the bodies are buried, but that doesn’t mean you can sue your employer for retaliation — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Comments to OIRA on forthcoming EEOC Background Check Guidance — from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Intellectual Disability under the ADAAA: A Widening Chasm of Problems? — from Michael Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- We Know You Don’t Mean to Discriminate - But Are You Biased Underneath the Hood? — from The HR Capitalist. Kris Dunn
- Employment discrimination by the numbers: Foreign Edition — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Pending Legislation Employers Can’t Afford to Ignore — from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog
- Senators Propose Amendments To ADEA — from Stoel Rives World of Employment
- Statistical disparities don’t necessarily indicate discrimination — from The Tennessean
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Your Future Employer Is Watching You Online. You Should Be, Too. — from Michael Fertik at the Harvard Business Review
- Employees Need To Take Control Of Their Online Identities — from Anthony Zaller’s California Employment Law Report
- Employers Who Demand Facebook Passwords. Oy Vey. — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Teacher fired for refusing to hand over Facebook password — from Friending Facebook Blog
- Michigan Proposes Legislation to Ban Employers from Accessing Employees’ Social Media Sites — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- The Facebook access controversy comes to Michigan — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
- Access To Social Media Accounts In The Hiring Process And Employer Ownership Of Trade Secrets Or Confidential Information Contained In Social Media Accounts: Legislation On Horizon? — from Trading Secrets
- Employee Photos on the Company’s Social Media Page? — from Nolo’s Employment Law Blog
- Social Media Ethics: Why You Should Have a Policy — from Social Media Today
HR & Employee Relations
- Should You Fire The Slugs? — from Stephanie Thomas at Compensation Cafe
- Did Your DUI Lawyer Draft Your Employee Handbook? — from TLNT
- Olbermann Employment Law-Palooza — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Quoting scripture at work — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- “Bullying” Is Becoming Part of the Zeitgeist — from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer
- Pet insurance as a benefit — from HR idiot
- Creating a Conflict-Conscious Workplace — from intown employer
- If the Facebook COO can leave the office at 5:30, maybe you can too — from Amy Joyce’s On Parenting (at washingtonpost.com)
- How to reduce your legal spend on employment issues — from Smart Business
Wage & Hour
- “Employers grow reluctant to offer internships following complaints” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Intern or Employee? Unpaid Internships May End Up Costing Employers — from LE Blog
- Argument preview: The “outside salesman” exception to the FLSA’s overtime-pay requirement — from SCOTUSblog
- Will breastfeeding support die with Obamacare? — from Eve Tahmincioglu’s CareerDiva
- Can an Employer Require an Employee to Make Up Time Taken as FMLA Leave? from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Until next week (also, remarkably, SFW):