If all of my musings of he past couple of year about the Old 97’s has piqued your interest, you can check them out in person, tomorrow (Saturday) night at the Beachland Ballroom.
If you’re there, look for my family and me up front, by the stage, singing and dancing the night away.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- How Discrimination Can Kill You — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Are You Ever “Too Old” For Cereal? Kellogg’s Thinks So. And Got In Trouble. — via The Employment Brief
- The Lessons of EEOC v. Freeman – “Know when to hold ’em. Know when to fold “’em.” — via Employment & the Law
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- We Say We Want Privacy Online, But Our Actions Say Otherwise — via Harvard Business Review
- Employee Fired for Facebook Selfie — via Currents
- Can You Fire an Employee Based on a Friend’s Facebook Posts? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Are employer “LinkedIn parties” legal? — via Business Management Daily
- Social Media Analytics: a Tool Ignored in Corporate Investigations — via In House
- How to Achieve Cybersecurity in 10 Words or Less — via Ride The Lightning
- How an Incident Response Plan Can Reduce Your Cyber Insurance Costs — via Privacy and Data Security Insight
HR & Employee Relations
- What Paul Ryan's House Speaker Bid Conditions Say About Work-Life Balance — via ABC News / Good Morning America
- The Top 5 Reasons Why Employees Sue Their Boss — via TLNT
- For Boss’s Day: Seven traits of a “World’s Best Boss” — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Amazon has got itself in a major feud with The New York Times — via Boy Genius Report
- You’re Fired! What Back to the Future Can Still Teach Us About the Workplace — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Bank To Laid-Off Employees: Keep Working For Free — via Workplace Diva
- Is Your Company’s Confidential Information Leaving at 5 p.m.? — via HR Law Matters
- Employee Wellness Is and Will Be a Big Issue — via Blogging4Jobs
Wage & Hour
- Do I have to pay an employee who works through lunch? — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Kaplan law school test prep case tests bounds of FLSA Outside Sales exemption — via Doug Hass’s The Day Shift
- When Job Descriptions are Linked to Pay — via Compensation Cafe
- Moonlighting during FMLA leave — via HR Hero Line
- Combatting FMLA Abuse — via EmployerLINC
Labor Relations
- NLRB Hearing Officer and Regional Director Impose More Burdensome Election Eligibility List Standards — via Labor Relations Today
- What Employers Can and Cannot Say During a Union Organizing Campaign — via Stoel Rives World of Employment
- Unions Target Bank Tellers … Again — via Matt Austin Labor Law
Workplace Safety
- The (un)intended consequences of OSHA’s new mandatory reporting rules — via Meyers Roman’s Ohio OSHA Law Blog
- What big companies pay workers when they lose body parts on the job — via Wonkblog
- OSHA Gives Public Until Oct. 28 To Submit Comments on Workplace Injury Reporting Rule — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog