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Friday, December 13, 2019
WIRTW #580 (the “I voted” edition)
Have you cast your ballot for the Worst Employer of 2019? Time is running short. The polls close Tuesday, December 17, at 11 pm.
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Friday, December 6, 2019
WIRTW #579 (the “blank slate” edition)
Next Saturday, December 14, Norah and her Fake ID bandmates will be traveling west to Elyria, Ohio, to play Blank Slate, a very cool all ages, all inclusive, and substance free club. Tickets are only $5 if you buy them in advance (here) or $7 at the door.
- Sex and the CEO — via Jonathan HR Law
- Stuffing Discrimination Complaints Into Thanksgiving? Feast on these Cases — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- There’s retaliation, and then there’s locking the complainant in a walk-in freezer. (Allegedly) — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog
- Ohio Fairness Act Takes Important First Step in Ohio House Committee — via Ohio Chamber Blog
- LGBTQ Rights in Employment: Does it Boil Down to the “Bathroom Use” Question Again? — via BeLabor The Point
- Can Music Increase Your Workplace Productivity? — via HR Gazette
- It’s Perfectly Legal to be an Asshole. — via HR Examiner with John Sumser
- How harmful thought patterns about workplace bullying and mobbing may accelerate the aging process — via Minding the Workplace
- Going Back to Work After a Pregnancy Loss — via Harvard Business Review
- How do I talk to my coworker about her body odor? — via Ask a Manager
- Facebook built a facial recognition app that identified employees — via Engadget HD
- Shaping Better Workplaces Through Social Media Screening — via Workology
- Cybersecurity in the Age of AI and Why Cybersecurity Isn’t Only a Tech Problem — via Harvard Business Review
- An Alarming Number of Software Teams Are Missing Cybersecurity Expertise — via Dark Reading
- Seeking Insurance for Cybersecurity-Related Losses — via The D & O Diary
- Big Media Finds out that Salary Secrecy is Dead. Spreadsheets Share Everything — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Compliance with FLSA Overtime Rule Changes 2020 — via Staffing Industry Analysts
- 11th Cir.: Arbitration Clause Requiring Fee/Cost Splitting Violates the FLSA — via Overtime Law Blog
- Fired Google Employees Vow Federal Labor Complaint — via Forbes
- The NLRB Rules that Unpaid Interns Are Not Employees Under the Act — via Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™
- NLRB’s LA Specialty Produce Decision Provides More Clarity on Employee Handbook Rule Standards — via Employment Law Worldview
- Buttigieg campaign staffers join union — via CUE, Inc.
- Workers sue McDonald’s over workplace violence — via HR Dive
- McDonalds to Train Store Employees on Mitigating & Identifying Violence — via Blogging4Jobs
- Attorney Mental Health: ‘Thanksgiving’ Isn’t Just a Holiday — via Law.com - In-House Counsel
- Erasing the Workplace Stigma of Behavioral Health Conditions — via EntertainHR
- Fifth Circuit Provides New Grounds for Employers to Pursue Late Notices of Contest to OSHA Citations — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
- How to Take Advantage of OSHA’s ‘Employee Misconduct’ Defense — via HR Hero Line
- OSHA Signals Its Regulatory Priorities in Fall Agenda — via OSHA Law Blog
- No Medical Marijuana in Ohio BWC’s Drug-Free Workplace — via Labor & Employment Law Navigator
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Friday, November 22, 2019
WIRTW #578 (the “credibility” edition)
Yesterday, the NFL upheld the indefinite suspension of Cleveland Browns’ defensive lineman Myles Garrett, who last week assaulted Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback Mason Rudolph on the field with his helmet.
At his suspension hearing, Garrett attempted to mitigate his misconduct by claiming that Rudolph had used a racial slur on the field.
Garrett’s problem? It was the first time he had raised that claim in the week following the incident. He didn’t raise it on the field. Or after the game. Or to the media. Or at any time prior to his hearing. Even his teammates were caught off guard by the claim. And that’s a huge problem for the credibility of his defense.
In harassment cases, credibility is everything. And if employee waits until a trial or hearing to raise a claim of harassment, his (or her) credibility, as well as their claim, is shot.
Here’s what I read this week.
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Friday, November 15, 2019
WIRTW #577 (the “side hustle” edition)
If I had gotten paid for my appearance on Matt Christensen‘s Fraud Not Frog podcast, I could classify it as a side hustle. But I didn’t; I appeared gratis to discuss the legal concerns businesses and employees need to consider when an employee wants to engage in a side hustle.
You can listen here, or better yes, listen by subscribing to Matt’s podcast in your app of choice.
Here’s what I read this week.
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Friday, November 8, 2019
WIRTW #576 (the “Dolly” edition)
I highly recommend you add Dolly Parton’s America to your podcast queue.
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Friday, November 1, 2019
WIRTW #575 (the “3.5” edition)
Being a parent is the world’s hardest job. But it’s also the most world’s most rewarding one. Which is why we keep doing it. The rewards are worth celebrating.
Last Friday night, I got to watch my daughter and her band absolutely blow the glass-pyramid roof off the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Cleveland Magazine’s Best of Cleveland Party.
“An example,” you ask? Here’s their latest original song, called “3.5” (which, in this proud dad’s very unbiased opinion, rips).
I love seeing the looks on people’s faces when the realize the sounds they are hearing are coming from a bunch of kids. At the Best of Cleveland event, I really loved seeing the band that followed them transform from, “We have to follow some kid band” (which was the look on their faces before soundcheck), to “How in the hell are we supposed to follow that?!” (which they actually said as they were walking onto the stage for their set.)
Here’s some photo memories of the evening, set to the soundtrack of a local radio show’s A+ review of Fake ID.
If you’re so inclined to check out all of Fake ID’s goings-on, they have a website, FakeIDofficialband.com.
Here’s what I read this week.
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Friday, October 25, 2019
WIRTW #574 (the “hero” edition)
What's a hero? I'm not sure how to define one, but I certainly know one when I see one. And earlier this week, I got to see one.
He also has a very well developed sense of humor, as he was happy to share this clip of Norm McDonald asking David Letterman how it's possible that any of the Kardashians are more famous than someone who walked on the moon.
I was captivated listening to his remarks about his work on the Apollo lunar project.
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Friday, October 18, 2019
WIRTW #573 (the “last laugh” edition)
When I go, I hope I have enough forethought to go out like this.
A dead man pranked his family at his own funeral by using a recording to scream ‘Let me out!’ as they put his coffin into the ground
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Friday, October 11, 2019
WIRTW #572 (the “what did I miss” edition)
Did I miss anything big while I was away earlier this week?
- Argument analysis: Justices divided on federal protections for LGBT employees — via SCOTUSBlog
- The Law is the Basement — via Kate Bischoff’s tHRive Law & Consulting Blog
- SCOTUS Oral Argument Recap: Is Justice Gorsuch the swing vote on LGBT workplace rights? — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Trump Appointee Gorsuch Plays Coy In LGBTQ Employment Rights Case — via NPR
- Justice Gorsuch emerges as an unlikely swing vote in the LGBTQ discrimination cases — via Vox
- The Supreme Court asks whether Title VII protects LGBT workers — via The Economist’s Democracy in America blog
In other news, I recently authored an article for Gusto discussing what AB5 (California’s recent law on independent contractor classification) means for small businesses operating in that state (including some practical tips for all employers dealing with contractor classification issues). You can access the article here.
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Friday, October 4, 2019
WIRTW #571 (the “thoughts and prayers” edition)
I’ll be offline next week, as my family will be in Philadelphia for my son’s heart procedure.
Donovan was born with pulmonary valve stenosis, and on Tuesday he’s having a balloon dilation via cardiac catheterization to (hopefully) fix it.
While everyone likes to tell us it’s a routine procedure, we’ve learned with Donovan over the years that because of his genetic disorder anything medical is rarely simple. Moreover, if it doesn’t work, he’s almost certainly looking at open heart surgery in his future to replace the valve.
Thus, we are traveling to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (with a small detour first to New York City to take D-man to the Nintendo Store; he told me I better have a lot of room on my credit card) with hopeful thoughts and very anxious anticipation.
We’re taking all good vibes and prayers you have to send Donovan’s way.
I’ll post an update next week after his procedure.
Here’s what I read this week.
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Friday, September 27, 2019
WIRTW #570 (the “unexpected” edition)
It’s not everyday you witness a band of 12- to 15-year-olds absolutely wail on Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”You can read the rest of the story here, check out Fake ID at their website, and catch them performing at the Best of Cleveland Party at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on October 25.
Yet there’s Fake ID, chugging through the sinister heavy metal classic with style and skill to spare, cresting a wave of pummeling sound…. Yes, the cover act’s ages often precludes bars and clubs from their tour dates, but Fake ID’s easy poise and undeniable chops tend to draw a crowd wherever they plug in.
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Friday, September 20, 2019
WIRTW #569 (the “get by with a little help” edition)
I bet you can’t find someone having a better time than this guy.
I hope you have something in your life that brings you this much joy.
Here’s what I read this week.
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Friday, September 13, 2019
WIRTW #568 (the “work songs, vol. 1” edition)
Today, I thought I’d take a look at some of the best songs ever written about working. Here are my first five. (These are not necessarily the “top 5,” and are not in any particular order; they are just the five that came to mind.)
- “Working Class Hero” — John Lennon
They hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy, you can’t follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
- “9 to 5” — Dolly Parton
No matter what they call it
And you spend your life
Putting money in his wallet
Working 9 to 5
What a way to make a living
- “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive” — Old 97’s
And if you offer me an office, I’d have to pass
But our jobs are all jobs, and sometimes they suck
I love what I do, and I’ve had pretty good luck
- “Takin’ Care of Business” — Bachman-Turner Overdrive
And start your slavin’ jobs and get your pay
If you ever get annoyed, look at me, I’m self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day
- “Career Opportunities” — The Clash
Bus driver
Ambulance man
Ticket inspector
I don’t understand
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Friday, September 6, 2019
WIRTW #567 (the “passion” edition)
In garages and basements and dorm rooms across the country and around the world, bands are forming this very minute. They are arguing over favorite songs, greatest albums, Stratocaster versus Telecaster, and inevitably which one of the members is going to have to switch from guitar to bass. These hopeful young dreamers give me hope.
But we also shouldn’t kid ourselves: they are exceptions. For every one of these fledgling anarcho-syndicalist collectives, there are a thousand or a million kids alone in their bedrooms staring at Protools screens wondering what they have to do to get the Swedish cabal to write a hit song for them. They download a file onto Bandcamp or YouTube, start logging the hits, and pray.
And oh my God, that sounds so lonely.
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Friday, August 30, 2019
WIRTW #566 (the “sweet sixteen” edition)
We haven’t changed a bit after 16 years of marriage. Happy (yesterday) anniversary to my bestie!
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Friday, August 23, 2019
WIRTW #565 (the “back to school” edition)
Word to live by, whether you’re a student, an employee, or just a human being.
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Friday, August 16, 2019
WIRTW #564 (the “Woodstock” edition)
At this moment very moment, 50 years ago, an estimated 400,000 people were gathered on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, celebrating 3 days of peace and music.
Woodstock.
The performance runs from 2 - 5 on Sunday on the big stage on the Rock Hall plaza. The music is free; the love isn’t (they’re just kids after all).
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Friday, August 9, 2019
WIRTW #563 (the “work in progress” edition)
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Friday, August 2, 2019
WIRTW #562 (the “someday we’ll find it” edition)
When the whole world seems like it’s going to 💩 , sometimes all you need to brighten your spirits is a video of 🐸 singing about a 🌈.
So here’s Kermit the Frog (along with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and Janet Weiss, Sleater-Kinney’s ex-drummer) performing the Muppets’ classic, Rainbow Connection, from his surprise performance at last weekend’s Newport Folk Festival.
(I really want to find the two people who thumbs-downed this video on YouTube.)
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Friday, July 26, 2019
WIRTW #561 (the “don’t call me flaky” edition)
According to The Economist, dads face greater workplace penalties for taking parental leaves than do moms.
Americans see taking a break to care for children as a sign of lower commitment to work and even flakiness. … Whereas mothers who take time off to rear offspring face difficulties when returning to work, opt-out fathers may fare worse, says Scott Behson, author of a book called “The Working Dad’s Survival Guide: How to Succeed at Work and at Home”. America has a workaholic culture, he says. Mothers who put their families first eschew that culture, resulting in costs to their careers. But fathers who do so are violating both the workaholic culture and traditional gender norms.
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