What I'm Reading This Week in Employment Law Related Blogs

There's lots of good content that is out there in the blogosphere and I thought I would pass along a few of the noteworthy entries I've read this week. 

  • Credit: Morguefile.com - Public DomainMichael Moore over at the Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog has a great recap on the fallout of this week's sexual harassment case with his own tips on investigation.
     
  • Will Schendel over at the Alaska Employment Law Blog has chimed in as well and points readers to a lack of standards in some other standards for how to deal with sexual harassment investigations and training. 
  • Kris Dunn, over at the HR Capitalist, has a fascinating look at a EEOC-filed case where the employer allegedly required employees returning to work after a sick leave to sign a release allowing the employer access to their physician records. 
  • Workplace Horizons has a detailed summary of what's going on with the pay discrimination legislation pending in Congress. 
  • Fisher & Phillips has an interesting look at sensitivity to fragrances and whether that can constitute a disability. 

Lastly, I strongly recommend using an RSS feed reader, like Google Reader, to broaden your reading and save time. I've written a "how-to" article to make it easy. Google Reader is also now out of beta and its a great tool for people unfamiliar to RSS feeds.  It's the best way to keep up with all that's out there.

Blog Featured in Connecticut Law Tribune

Since the blog is brand new, indulge me for a moment regarding some recent publicity for the blog.

While blogs are definitely "new" media, it sure is nice for the "old" media to pick up on what blogs are saying.  This week, The Connecticut Law Tribune stayed on top of the tech trend here. This week, they did an extensive profile of the blog and myself.  We've got the legal reprint here for your reading enjoyment.   

Traffic to the blog only continues to increase and reflects what I suspected -- a desire to find out more information about Connecticut's employment laws.  Keep sending those suggestions, comments and yes, criticisms to me so we can continue to expand this blog. 

And since we've got your attention, the Blog has also been mentioned on several other noteworthy blogs of late including the Blawg Review, Race in the Workplace Blog, Jottings By an Employer's Lawyer blog, the Workplace Prof blog, and one of my new favorite blogs, the Evil HR Lady.  Please check out these interesting employment law-related blogs as well and my thanks to them for their references.

SEPTEMBER 29th UPDATE: The Tribune story has been picked up by the national legal news site: Law.com with the headline: "Employment Law Blog is Gem of the Web."