WIRTW #426 (the “back to school” edition)
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Follow Trump’s Advice, Lose Your Sexual Harassment Case — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- Donuts & Harassment — via Workplace Prof Blog
- “That’s So ‘Retarded!’” Stop Stigmatizing Those with Mental Impairments — via FisherBroyles
- OFCCP takes contractors back to school on pre-employment testing — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- The Church of Anti-Discrimination — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Illegal to Ask about a Candidate’s Compensation? — via Fistful of Talent
- Will Laws Banning Discussion of Past Salaries Become the New Sick Leave? — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Facebook’s Campus: A Workplace Reality Like Virtually No Other — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- What’s your boss doing reading your emails? — via Ask a Manager
- Over 100 Law Firms Sharing Cyber Threat Intelligence — via Ride The Lightning
- 11 Employee & Candidate Review Sites Employers Need to Know About — via Blogging4Jobs
- How ‘unlimited PTO’ can undermine employee engagement — via Ragan.com
- 5 Fundamentals of FCRA Compliant Background Checks — via Newton Software Blog
- Noncompete Litigation Between Papa John’s and Panera – Lessons For Protecting Competitive Advantages — via Michigan Employment Law Advisor
- What does “solicit” mean in nonsolicitation agreements? — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Beyond Blue Blazers: The Pants Choices of Professional White Men In America — via The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- Do most employers pay minimum-wage workers more than $7.25/hour? YES! (And it’s not even close) — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Second Circuit Provides Further Guidance on Compensability of Donning and Doffing Time — via Wage & Hour Defense Institute
- As 9-to-5 dies, implications for overtime grow — via Business Management Daily
- How To Take Credit For Bonuses and Commissions Under the DOL’s New Salary Basis Rules — via Minnesota Employer
- Is the Gig Economy Taking Over? — via hr bartender
- National Employee Freedom Week is Now — via CUE, Inc.
- Fight for $15 Organizers Tell SEIU: We Need $15 and a Union — via Workplace Fairness
- Fifth Circuit Triples Down on the Legality of Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements — via Currents
- D.C. Circuit Upholds NLRB Finding that Employment Agreement’s Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Provisions Violated the NLRA — via Trading Secrets
- WWE “Wrestles” with the Question of Whether Road Warrior Animal was an Employee or Independent Contractor — via All in a Day’s Work
- On the ball? Employee wants to bring her own seat to work — via HR Hero Line
- OSHA Offers Faster Process for Whistleblowers — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- Here’s How to Prevent Accidents and Avoid New OSHA Fines — via TLNT
Until next week…