If I ever I get the t-shirts and coffee mugs printed with this tagline, Kristi gets the first one.
Here’s what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Define the Line: Using Pop Culture to Educate Employees on Harassment — via hr bartender
- 7 Lawsuits Claim Amazon Fires Pregnant Women — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- “Why does he sexually harass me at work?” — via FisherBroyles
- EEOC Leadership Shift: A New EEOC Chair Confirmed By Senate — via Workplace Class Action Litigation
- My Unconventional Prediction on the SCOTUS LGBT Cases — via Workplace Prof Blog
- What NOT To Do During Sexual Harassment Prevention Training — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Managers: Are You Prepared to Handle Religion in the Workplace? — via Harvard Business Review
- Direct Evidence is a Smoking Gun — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Do heterosexuals have Title VII rights? — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
HR & Employee Relations
- Strip Clubs, Milwaukee Aldermen, and Bribes — via Tracy Coenen’s FRAUDfiles
- Could ‘Workism’ Be Killing Your Culture? — via EntertainHR
- The Infantilization of the American Workforce — via HR Examiner with John Sumser
- A Rogue Coder Turned a Parking Spot into a Coworking Space and People Loved It — via VICE
- Microsoft Changes Employee Investigation Process — via Workology
- Hirer Beware! Employee’s Use of Former Employer’s Trade Secrets Leads to Verdict Against New Employer — via Labor & Employment Law Navigator
Technology
- Trickle downer: Are you getting “trickle ghosted” at work? — via Workplace Diva
- All the Ways Hiring Algorithms Can Introduce Bias — via Harvard Business Review
- Getting Hacked, Then Getting Sued for Getting Hacked — via Technologist
- Nation-State Breaches Surged in 2018: Verizon DBIR — via Dark Reading
- New Issues for the Facebook Graveyard? — via Technologist
Wage & Hour
- The “ABC’s” of Independent Contractor Designations — via Janette Levey Frisch’s The Emplawyerologist Blog
- Look It Up: ‘Gig Economy’ Is Added To The Dictionary — via Gig Employer Blog
- Despite DOL ‘Gig Economy’ Opinion Letter, State Wage and Hour Laws That Provide Greater Protections for Workers Still Trump Fair Labor Standards Act — via Trade Secret / Noncompete Blog
- You just approved FMLA leave for an ineligible employee. What now? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- FMLA: You Can’t Make Me- or Can You? — via SHRM Blog
Labor
- Google walkout organizers demand company investigate HR department — via The Verge
- Riot Games staff walk out after sexism lawsuits result in forced arbitration — via Engadget HD
- Bernie Sanders staffers approve first-ever union contract for presidential campaign workers — via Workplace Fairness
OSHA & Safety
- Stressed? So Are Your Employees — via SHRM Blog
- “Panic Button” Laws Make Their Way Across The U.S. — via Labor Employment Law Blog
- Employers struggle to support employees with drug and mental health issues — via HR Dive
- In Beef With Meatpacker, OSHA Dings Texas Co. $615,640 for Worker Safety Violations at Its Plant — via Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog