Vol. 52 No. 9, September 2022

Index

• Be wary of bias against childless employees.
• Secret Service text case: A lesson in litigation holds.
• States aim to add new privacy duties to HR.
• Union petitions rose by more than 50% this year.
• You can't pay 'volunteer' workers with free products.
• New health risk: Monkeypox sparks bias, harassment.
• Rethink your COVID testing requirements in light of new EEOC guidance.
• Beware forcing bosses into nonexempt work.
• Harassment: The 'just joking' defense is a loser.
• Price of illegal gag order on staff: $3 million.
• Retirement 'roast' leads to libel lawsuit.
• Settling a lawsuit? Don't fly solo, call your lawyer.
• You can't discriminate based on type of citizenship.
• 3 steps for honoring employees' confidentiality requests.
• Keep employee's medical status confidential, even if it triggers complaints of favoritism.
• Are 'woke training police' coming to your state?
• E-Verify returns to pre-COVID rule on SSA mismatch.
• Employee sleepwalks into co-worker's hotel room: Do you terminate or accommodate?
• Half of employers addressed abortion ruling internally.
• Many HR pros fail to take their allotted PTO.
• More child-labor cases = more enforcement.
• Swearing at work: When is it considered harassment?
• The HR I.Q. Test.
• HR detective: 10 mistakes to avoid in workplace investigations.
• The Mailbag.