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HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 29, 2005
Special Back to School Edition
Today I’ve grouped our updates around school themes:
Organized Teachers (teacher’s union is now blogging)
Socratic Teaching Method (two interesting questions posed and answered)
Sunday School? (faith and work; an attitude)
Management School (workplace stress; jobs that pay women more; future of recruiting)
Labor Law School (answers to some basic questions about picketing)
School of Courtroom Hard [...]
Elefant’s Blawg Review # 21 fascinates
Carolyn Elefant’s My Shingle is one of the longest-running and consistently best law blogs (blawgs). Carolyn is also a blogging evangelist, talking up blogging for solo and small firm lawyers, her target audience, every chance she gets.
(Apologies to Carolyn for the crude poking-fun-at-her-name photo, but I figure she’s used to it by now).So it [...]
Transgender Issues in the Workplace: Tip of the Iceberg?
pic by greggoconnell
Just when you think you know everything there is to know about HR, here comes an interesting question from Hrhero.com.
It reflects an issue that is sure to garner more attention in the future: transgender issues in the workplace. First, what does “transgender” even mean? According to one definition, transgender:
Transgender is generally used [...]
Praying For Help: More On Religion In the Workplace
pic by Jordan Klein
Yesterday, I posted a joke regarding Heaven and Hell; today, Friday, as the weekend approaches, and many religions prepare to celebrate their sabbath day, I get a little more serious and present a posting on religion in the workplace.
This posting, borrowing from Workforce Magazine, addresses the following important questions:
A. If we promote [...]
Makeup discrimination case continues to fascinate
Donald at All Deliberate Speed links to an audio file of the oral argument in Jesperson v. Harrah’s, the casino bartender mandatory makeup rule case, about which we’ve blogged here and here.
I was trying to hustle onward with my HR/Employment Blogosphere update last weekend and not be distracted with listening to this argument (an hour [...]
