Archive: January 2012

One report suggests that as many as 91% of employers use social networking sites to screen potential employees, with as many as 69% of emplo...

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I’ve now had a few days to digest the NLRB’s latest foray into regulating social media in the workplace . I can sum up the NLRB’s report in ...

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I live in a constant search for the perfect task organizer/to-do list. For the past several months, I’ve been using Toodledo , which is rob...

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The EEOC has published its draft strategic plan for fiscal years 2012 – 2016 . A quick Ctrl-F for the word “systemic” reveals 16 different h...

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I just received the following news release, via email, from the NLRB: To help provide further guidance to practitioners and human resou...

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Read these facts, from Slasinski v. Confirma, Inc. (6th Cir. 1/24/12) [pdf] , and I’ll be back to discuss: In July 2007, members of Co...

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Last Thursday, I participated in the Social Workplace Twitter Chat (#SWchat), which covered social media policies. In response to a questio...

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Two of the most popular post on this blog relate to how employers calculate their employees’ “annual” FMLA leave allotment: Determining...

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This week, we celebrated the 70th birthday of the greatest (and most entertaining?) athlete ever, Muhammed Ali: Here’s the rest of what I...

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On Time Magazine ’s Moneyland Blog, Dan Schawbel asks the following questions: “Is it a bad idea to friend co-workers on Facebook? How abo...

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For the unfamiliar, the McDonnell Douglas test is an evidentiary framework used in discrimination cases, which lack direct evidence of disc...

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EEOC v. Management Hospitality of Racine, Inc. (7th Cir. 1/9/12) concerns some of the worst allegations of sexual harassment you will en...

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What MLK fought for… From abcnews.com , discussing the resolution of a story on which I reported last month : The Ohio Civil Rights C...

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Next week, my daughter’s kindergarten class will hold its second “manners lunch.” It is a formal lunch, with formal place settings, at which...

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Any decision issued by the Supreme Court in an employment case is newsworthy. Thus, even though Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

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Before you read further, make sure you are sitting down, and that there is nothing blunt nearby for you to bump your head on if you pass out...

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A quartet of advice memos released by the NLRB’s Office of the General Counsel over the past weeks suggests that the NLRB may be backing of...

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Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court, in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion , held that a business could compel a group of individuals to waive th...

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Okay, so it’s not really a world tour, but I do have a bunch of speaking engagements coming up in the next few weeks, all but one of which y...

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Let’s start with the obvious: it is illegal in Ohio for an employer to discriminate against an employee because of the employee’s disability...

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For the uninitiated, a no-fault attendance policy terminates an employee who accumulates a pre-designated number of absences, regardless of ...

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I have no idea if India has workplace sex discrimination laws. The following classified ad would suggest not : Does anyone know if this...

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Available at http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2011/12/26 Happy New Year!

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