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2 Mar 2018, 5:28 am by Jon Hyman
— via EntertainHR How to Handle 5 Generations in the Workplace — via HR Hero Line Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers: Supreme Court Holds Internal Complaints are Not Enough — via Currents Wage & Hour How a $608 Mistake Cost This Business Over $40,000 — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas Mythbusting the Gig Economy — via TLNT Grubhub trial: Gig economy survives another day — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered … [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 5:28 am by Jon Hyman
— via EntertainHR How to Handle 5 Generations in the Workplace — via HR Hero Line Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers: Supreme Court Holds Internal Complaints are Not Enough — via Currents Wage & Hour How a $608 Mistake Cost This Business Over $40,000 — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas Mythbusting the Gig Economy — via TLNT Grubhub trial: Gig economy survives another day — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered … [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:29 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered NLRB extends comment period for ‘quickie’ election rule — via CUE, Inc. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 4:29 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered NLRB extends comment period for ‘quickie’ election rule — via CUE, Inc. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 9:11 pm by Walter Olson
" https://t.co/aQkSFeVLw1 #CatoSOTU — Walter Olson (@walterolson) January 31, 2018 Yay Gorsuch, seriously. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Coming to Cato in Washington, D.C. noon Feb. 8, register or watch online: You May Be a Sex Offender if… Featuring Lenore Skenazy, Author and columnist, founder of Free-Range Kids; with comments by Dara Lind, Senior Reporter, Vox; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 4:33 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Deadspin “Last-Minute Whistle-Blowing Before An Expected Termination to Create A ‘Retaliation’ Claim” — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered The Supreme Court passes on ruling on LGBT workplace rights … for now — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog Bill would ban arbitration in sex bias cases—is that a good idea? [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 4:23 am by Edith Roberts
” Additional commentary on Masterpiece Cakeshop comes from Jeff Milchen at The American Independent Business Alliance; Walter Olson in an op-ed for the New York Daily News; law student Justin Burnam at The Least Dangerous Blog; Mark Joseph Stern at Slate; David Boyle at Casetext; Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker’s Daily Comment blog; Howard Wasserman at PrawfsBlawg; Douglas Laycock and Thomas Berg at Vox; the same authors in an op-ed for the New York Daily News, where… [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 4:28 am by Jon Hyman
 — via PM Jobs Outside law firm defending company in FMLA claim gets sued for FMLA interference — via Eric Meyer’s Employer Handbook Blog Labor The battle to overturn the NLRB’s joint employer rule — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered House of Representatives Passes Legislation Limiting Joint-Employer Liability and Reversing Browning-Ferris — via Ohio HR Law What the NLRB’s New Anti-Union GC Means… [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 4:51 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog There Are No Accidental Monsters: Or How Not to Worry About Sexual Harassment at Work — via Above the Law The Time We Waste on Sexual Harassment — via Employment & Human Rights Law In Canada Weinstein’s investigations — and settlements — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Sexual Harassment: A Few Words of Advice in the Wake of Weinstein,… [read post]
5 Nov 2017, 8:59 am by Walter Olson
As a result, says Walter Olson of the Cato Institute, consumers are in general surprisingly satisfied with the arbitration experience, because it provides the kind of justice we imagine courts will: You sit down and tell your story in your own words. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 4:30 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Workplace Fairness Hiring Discrimination Isn’t Getting Better — via Next Blog Mark of the Beast: $666 Raise Sparks Lawsuit — via Workology Technology McDonald’s opting for “Snaplications” to attract young job applicants — via HR Dive Legal Concerns With Iris Scanning and Biometric Tech — via Technologist Model Cyber Security Law Pending Final Action By National Association of… [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 3:51 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Intown Employer Make sure employees know what to do if ICE raids your workplace — via HR Hero Line Labor Ohio: Get Ready for a Union Onslaught — via Matt Austin Labor Law Local union throws flag on Dallas Cowboys’ owner’s threat to bench players who disrespect the U.S. flag — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Waivers of class actions against employers — via Walter… [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 4:17 am by Edith Roberts
” Briefly: At the Cato Institute’s Cato at Liberty blog, Walter Olson salutes Edith Windsor, “a heroine of property rights as well as constitutional protection for gay persons,” the plaintiff in the successful challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act who died this week at the age of 88. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 4:14 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Liability for abetting workplace bias — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered I keep finding my coworker in a compromising position … with himself — via Ask a Manager Unbelievable – Health Care Providers Sued For Disability Discrimination — via Above the Law HR & Employee RelationsSecond-guessing the advice columns: Bad HR practices… [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Debra Saunders quotes me in her new column on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s new decision to reconsider the Dear Colleague and Blueprint policies of the Obama years: [Las Vegas Review-Journal/syndicated]: Their decision [four Harvard law professors’] to release this memo, said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, sends the message that if you want to defend the policy, “you’re not going to have to argue with… [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 7:19 pm by Walter Olson
" /9 — Walter Olson (@walterolson) September 8, 2017 OCR put 100s of colleges on investigation list, and its field agents were seen as bent on scoring penalties, not neutral fact-finders /10 — Walter Olson (@walterolson) September 8, 2017 "Increasingly the momentum of their own bureaucracies" as well as feds, activists, fear of criticism push schools into extreme positions /12 — Walter Olson (@walterolson)… [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 3:56 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog EEOC: “gentleman’s club” broke law by refusing to hire male barkeep — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Facebook shuts down anonymous in-house forum over harassment — via The Verge That maximum leave policy you have is now no good — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions Ebola, Trypanophobia, And Deafness: What Does The ADA Require? [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 5:13 am by Jon Hyman
Hey look, it’s me, in Crain’s Cleveland Business, discussing the employee handbooks: Here’s what I read this week: Discrimination Compliance with Today’s Anti-Discrimination Laws Through a History Lesson — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Employer Beware: When “good” isn’t good enough (disability bias) — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider Legal incentives and… [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 4:06 am by SHG
In reaction to the hysteria following the Google Memo by James Damore, Walter Olson was one of the few who understood it as the normal, and inevitable, outcome of a regulatory mechanism that’s been in place for generations. [read post]