The newest threat to your cybersecurity? Your lunchroom appliances

Dinner is always a bit of cluster in my house. We are a home of two working parents, and, with music lessons and band rehearsals three nights a week, it seems that we are always scrambling for our evening meal. More often than not, we end up eating out, which is neither good for our wallets nor our waistlines.

What happens to the new FLSA salary test under President Trump?

The one employment-law question I’ve been asked most since waking up last Wednesday to the reality that The Donald will be The President (aside from, “How did this happen,” and for that I direct you to John Oliver’s excellent 30-minute soliloquy of an answer from his Sunday night HBO program—warning, language NSFW) is, “Does this mean that the new FLSA salary test won’t go into effect?”

The short answer? “No, it does not mean that.”

Employee’s misuse of medical leave grounds FMLA claim

Employers often tread too cautiously when handling employees on FMLA leave. Despite this caution, courts will to side with an employer that terminates an employee after uncovering abuses of FMLA leave.

Case in point? Sharif v. United Airlines (4th Cir. 10/31/16).

WIRTW #438 (the “White House” edition)

I heard that there was this huge meeting at the White House yesterday. 

A photo posted by Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) on Nov 10, 2016 at 1:14pm PST

#TheChamps #youthoughtiwastalkingabouttrump #JRputashirton

Here’s what I read this week.

How do we heal at work after this election season? [Updated]

As someone who’s been blogging as long as I have, nearly all of my life experiences run through my blogging filter. “How can translate this into a blog post about the workplace,” is a question I often ask myself. So this is the place in which I found myself yesterday. “What does a Trump presidency mean for labor and employment law?”

Federal court recognizes LGBT employment discrimination as illegal under Title VII

It’s been more than a year since the EEOC first announced that it would accept LGBT-discrimination charges as sex-discrimination charges under Title VII. Last week, the EEOC finally got a federal court to agree with its position in a LBGT-discrimination-is-sex-discrimination lawsuit.

EEOC on Wellness Programs and EEO-1s

The EEOC has posted webinar recordings of two significant new rules: Wellness and EEO-1 requirements.