Cable car rides, hiking and biking to and over the Golden Gate Bridge, sailing the harbor, reuniting with my college roommate, the “Full House” house, hugging a giant redwood tree in Muir Woods, scenic drives with the top down, and lots of great food and wine. All in all, I’d say my four days in San Francisco and Napa was a huge success.
Huge props to Napa’s Kuleto Estate (the most beautiful winery you’ll ever see — the view is the bottom left below) and Frog’s Leap for their tasty wines. Too bad I had to return to reality this week.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- No Ifs, Ands, or Buts: “But For” Standard Requires New Trial, Court Rules — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Boston Globe tackles attractiveness discrimination — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Big Red and Fried Chicken: Dallas Law Firm Sued for Discrimination — from Texas Employer Handbook
- Employers beware: You are liable for discrimination on the part of your staffing agencies — from Employment Law Bits
- 70% of Sexually Harassed Workers Say They Didn't Report it to Their Employers — from Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog
- EEOC Charge Handling Process — from Employment & the Law
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Too Creepy to Win: Employer Access to Employee Email — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- NJ passes a business-friendly workplace social media privacy law — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Social Media is Paralyzing HR — from HR Examiner with John Sumser
- Who is Watching You When You BYOD? — from netWORKed Lawyers
HR & Employee Relations
- How Much Employee Turnover Really Costs You — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Handbook essentials: Auditing your policies the right way — from HR Gazette
- Does Your Employment Application Need To Be Updated? — from Employment Essentials
- How long do I have to keep HR records? — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- What if Ryan Braun Was an “At Will” Employee? — from Wisconsin Employer Lawyer Blog
Wage & Hour
- What Pink Floyd Can Teach Employers about FMLA: Enforce Call-In Procedures and Insist Upon Facts Supporting Need for Leave — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- IRS Issues DOMA Guidance — from Employer’s Law Blog
- Shouldn’t the White House Be Paying Its Interns, Too? — from TLNT
- New York Times Op-Ed on Future of FLSA: A Provocative Read — from Employment Lawyer Blog
Labor Relations
- NLRB app review: Not perfect, but not half bad — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- Are Employers Listening? Twitter Hash Tags in Support of Raising #MinimumWage — from Blogging4Jobs
- Is “Management Rights” an Oxymoron? — from We Know Next
- Labor and Obamacare — from Workplace Prof Blog
- A Labor Day Present from the NLRB — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog