What does a labor and employment lawyer do to relax on the weekends? If it’s this labor and employment lawyer, and it happens to be the second Sunday in August, the answer is frog jumping (the Valley City Frog Jump Festival, to be precise). Click here for a full recap of my family’s not so stellar, but oh so fun, showing at this year’s event.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
Sexual orientation and reverse discrimination — from EmployerLINC
Harassment complaints by male Homeland Security employees — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
Can a Netflixian Approach to Selection Decisions Eliminate Discrimination? — from Stephanie Thomas’s Proactive Employer Blog
Employer wins lawsuit despite a "pattern of systematic sexual harassment" — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
Helping Employers Against Employees Who Help Themselves to Company Information to Build a Discrimination Claim — from Jason Shinn’s Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Discrimination claims by Muslims on the rise — from California Employment Law
Employment Litigation: How Much Will You Pay? — from Mark Toth’s Manpower Employment Blawg
Orders to “Go see the Doc” cost Baltimore County $475,000 — from Employment Discrimination Report
The EEOC Came Knocking (Part Two): Effective Position Statements — from Suzanne Boy’s Southwest Florida HR Law & Solutions
Virtually All of The Fortune 500 Companies Voluntarily Prohibit Discrimination On The Basis of Sexual Orientation — from Employment Discrimination Report
Social Media & Workplace Technology
The Business BYO Craze: Has It Gone Too Far? — from hr bartender
Use Your Email Signatures to Get Overeager Coworkers Off Your Back — from Lifehacker
Does the Company or the Employee Own a Twitter Account? — from California Employment Law Report
Social tools for tracking your employees — from Mike VanDervort’s The Human Race Horses
CFO firing after Chick-fil-A post shows what's protected and what’s not in social media speech — from Phoenix Business Blog
How to Use Social Media Evidence in Workplace Investigations — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
HR & Employee Relations
“I Would Like To Extend You A Counter-Offer To Suck My Dick”: A Rejected Jobseeker Sends The Padres The Best Letter Ever — from Deadspin
Separation Agreement or No Separation Agreement? — from Labor & Employment Law Perspectives
Criminal Convictions and Arrests - To Hire Or Not To Hire? — from From the Sidebar
Your employer sucks and isn’t going to change — from Ask a Manager
My Employer Says I Have To Resign. What Should I Do? — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
Locking Janitors in Wal-Mart - False Imprisonment? — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
Wage & Hour
The One In Which I Try to Explain the Joint Employer Test — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
FLSA Lessons from Gordon Ramsay — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
Can my boss track my hours? — from Suzanne Lucas, the Evil HR Lady, writing at CBS Money Watch
Tenth Circuit Upholds Salary Basis (and Thus Exempt Status) Despite Deductions From PTO Bank — from Wage and Hour Law Update
Overtime and Exotic Dancers — from Alabama Employment Law Report
Federal Judge Severely Limits Scope of Auto-Deduct Collective Action — from Healthcare Employment Counsel
Beware the loose thread that can unravel the entire garment — from Mike Maslanka’s Work Matters
Why You Should Know Your Rights Under FMLA — from Workplace Fairness
Labor Relations
NLRB Taking Aggressive Legal Positions in Attempt to Remain Relevant — from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update
An uninvited guest: the NLRB settles in — from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection
Does the Golden Rule Violate Section 7 of the NLRA? — from Labor Relations Institute
NLRB Sets Sights on “At-Will” Provisions — from Hiring & Firing
Free Speech is not Protected at Work but Some things you say may be. — from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
