{"title":"DOL: Guidance Issued on Joint Employment; Final Rule Advances on White-Collar FLSA Exemption; Final Persuader Rule Issued; Sick Leave Regulations Proposed for Federal Contractors; Final Rule Issued to Help Retirement Investors; Contingent-Worker Survey Incorporated into 2017 BLS Survey; Proposed Revisions to WIOA Nondiscrimination Provisions • OSHA: Final Silica Rule Issued • FAR: Final Rule Issued on Confidentiality Provisions • EEOC: Proposed Retaliation Guidance Published for Comment; Proposed Revision of EEO-1 Reports Requires Reporting of Pay Data • DHS: Final STEM Optional Practical Training Extended; Proposed Changes to I-9 Form • NLRB: Petition for New Rule Allowing Union Captive-Audience Meetings","authors":"Howard M. Kastrinsky","doi":"10.1002/ert.21557","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 2","pages":"55-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crafting a Social-Media Policy You Can “Like”","authors":"Kevin J. Smith, Lindsay Colvin","doi":"10.1002/ert.21559","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21559","url":null,"abstract":"As social media changes and develops, so must employers’ responses to it. Each new platform provides unique ways for users to communicate with one another and the outside world. However, employees may also use social media to communicate negative statements about their jobs, leaving employers to strike a difficult balance between an employee ’ s right to free speech and the potential for damage to the business. Employers attempting to protect their interests from employee socialmedia activity through employer policies must be mindful of employee protections enforced by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and afforded under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. Recent decisions by the NLRB concerning appropriate social-media policies have left many employers unsure of how to draft or implement workplace social-media policies that are both lawful and effective. This Q&A addresses recent developments in the law concerning social-media policies, discusses possible actions that employers can take to improve those policies, and cautions against including social-media-policy provisions that might run afoul of Section 7.","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 2","pages":"93-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21559","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"10X Thinking: Keys for Transforming Lives and Teams for Exponential Results","authors":"Adam Markel","doi":"10.1002/ert.21565","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 2","pages":"49-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21565","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender-Parity Wage Protection—Recent Developments and Survey of State Laws","authors":"Judy Yi, Anne Baggott","doi":"10.1002/ert.21566","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 2","pages":"65-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21566","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supreme Court Affirms Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association—A Challenge to Long-Standing Union “Agency-Shop” Arrangements","authors":"Harold M. Brody, Rochelle H. Schultz","doi":"10.1002/ert.21558","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21558","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 2","pages":"85-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21558","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ruby Files: Part 1—Exempt or Nonexempt and the DOL Audit","authors":"Emma R. Schuering","doi":"10.1002/ert.21563","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21563","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 2","pages":"25-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21563","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DOL: Proposed Rule on Workers’ Compensation for Energy Employees; Final Rule to Promote Pay Transparency; FLSA Final Rule on Direct-Care Workers Upheld • OSHA: Final Rule on Retaliation Complaints of Railroad and Public Transportation Employees; Proposed Rule to Lower Beryllium Levels • EEOC: Proposed Rule Regarding Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act • NLRB: New Edition of the NLRB Bench Book","authors":"Gia F. Colunga, Rachel E. A. Atterberry","doi":"10.1002/ert.21552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ert.21552","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 1","pages":"63-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21552","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137834349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Training Fails and What to Change: A Case for Microlearning and Ongoing Management","authors":"Amy Fox","doi":"10.1002/ert.21549","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ert.21549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79591,"journal":{"name":"Employment relations today","volume":"43 1","pages":"41-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ert.21549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51560526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}