What does a labor and employment lawyer do to relax on the weekends? If it’s this labor and employment lawyer, and it happens to be the second Sunday in August, the answer is frog jumping (the Valley City Frog Jump Festival, to be precise). Click here for a full recap of my family’s not so stellar, but oh so fun, showing at this year’s event.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Sexual orientation and reverse discrimination — from EmployerLINC
- Harassment complaints by male Homeland Security employees — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Can a Netflixian Approach to Selection Decisions Eliminate Discrimination? — from Stephanie Thomas’s Proactive Employer Blog
- Employer wins lawsuit despite a "pattern of systematic sexual harassment" — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Helping Employers Against Employees Who Help Themselves to Company Information to Build a Discrimination Claim — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- Discrimination claims by Muslims on the rise — from California Employment Law
- Employment Litigation: How Much Will You Pay? — from Mark Toth’s Manpower Employment Blawg
- Orders to “Go see the Doc” cost Baltimore County $475,000 — from Employment Discrimination Report
- The EEOC Came Knocking (Part Two): Effective Position Statements — from Suzanne Boy’s Southwest Florida HR Law & Solutions
- Virtually All of The Fortune 500 Companies Voluntarily Prohibit Discrimination On The Basis of Sexual Orientation — from Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- The Business BYO Craze: Has It Gone Too Far? — from hr bartender
- Use Your Email Signatures to Get Overeager Coworkers Off Your Back — from Lifehacker
- Does the Company or the Employee Own a Twitter Account? — from California Employment Law Report
- Social tools for tracking your employees — from Mike VanDervort’s The Human Race Horses
- CFO firing after Chick-fil-A post shows what's protected and what’s not in social media speech — from Phoenix Business Blog
- How to Use Social Media Evidence in Workplace Investigations — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
HR & Employee Relations
- “I Would Like To Extend You A Counter-Offer To Suck My Dick”: A Rejected Jobseeker Sends The Padres The Best Letter Ever — from Deadspin
- Separation Agreement or No Separation Agreement? — from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
- Criminal Convictions and Arrests - To Hire Or Not To Hire? — from From the Sidebar
- Your employer sucks and isn’t going to change — from Ask a Manager
- My Employer Says I Have To Resign. What Should I Do? — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Locking Janitors in Wal-Mart - False Imprisonment? — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Wage & Hour
- The One In Which I Try to Explain the Joint Employer Test — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- FLSA Lessons from Gordon Ramsay — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Can my boss track my hours? — from Suzanne Lucas, the Evil HR Lady, writing at CBS Money Watch
- Tenth Circuit Upholds Salary Basis (and Thus Exempt Status) Despite Deductions From PTO Bank — from Wage and Hour Law Update
- Overtime and Exotic Dancers — from Alabama Employment Law Report
- Federal Judge Severely Limits Scope of Auto-Deduct Collective Action — from Healthcare Employment Counsel
- Beware the loose thread that can unravel the entire garment — from Mike Maslanka’s Work Matters
- Why You Should Know Your Rights Under FMLA — from Workplace Fairness
Labor Relations
- NLRB Taking Aggressive Legal Positions in Attempt to Remain Relevant — from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update
- An uninvited guest: the NLRB settles in — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
- Does the Golden Rule Violate Section 7 of the NLRA? — from Labor Relations Institute
- NLRB Sets Sights on “At-Will” Provisions — from Hiring & Firing
- Free Speech is not Protected at Work but Some things you say may be. — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions