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Quit Peeking At Me: A Nice Summary of Privacy Issues in the Workplace
One of the most complicated areas of employment law concerns, I believe, privacy issues. This posting from Faegre & Benson provides an excellent overview and summary of five key areas where privacy issues arise, including:
Employee Medical and Disability Information
Workplace Monitoring and Searches
Background Checks and Employee Testing
Off-Duty Conduct
Multi-State and Multi-National Challenges
If these topics are of concern [...]
Review of the Proposed OFCCP Standards for Assessing Systematic Compensation Discrimination
As noted in a previous posting, the OFCCP is now proposing new standards for assessing Systematic Compensation Discrimination. While there are some interesting deviations from the OFCCP’s previous practices in this regard, what is most interesting is that the agency is now proposing a standardized method for this determination. I review the basic points made [...]
Economist magazine’s essay contest: “Import workers or export jobs?” George gives it a nice try, but takes no prize.
I subscribe to the Economist magazine, which I highly commend for its intelligent and evenhanded coverage of all manner of subjects (not just economics and finance, as its title would suggest).
It’s one of the increasingly rare print media sources that still does a creditable (and credible) job of keeping editorial opinions out of its factual [...]
Handling An Employee with A Disability: A Textbook Case On How to Do It RIGHT!
Many of the case stories presented here illustrate what not to do; in this story, the supervisor did it right!
This case, described in AHI’s Employment Law Resource Center, involves an employee who informs her supervisor during lunch that she was diagnosed as having diabetes and occasionally has an hypoglycemic episode, which means that she [...]
Update: OFCCP and Compensation Discrimination: Changes in the Air
I just located the documents referred to in this posting, including the document for determining whether pay discrimination exists, and a document covering a self-examination of one’s pay system.
This memo from Ogletree & Deakins indicates that the OFCCP will be proposing two documents pertaining to analyzing pay discrimination. The first, and to me the more [...]
