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What I've Been Reading This Week


It has been a busy couple of weeks traveling for work.  In fact as I type this, I am about ready to land in Miami.  However, while I have a few spare minutes, I want to post a What I've Been Reading This Week so that readers can take a look at some of the well written notes I came across. 

As always, below are a few articles that caught my eye this week.


Employers: A Few Tips On Dealing With the Termination of High Profile Employees

This is a great article from the Delaware Employment Law blog on a recent issue that arose when Reddit terminated a high profile employee, Victoria Taylor, who had been responsible for organizing and facilitating AMAs for the company (AMAs a/k/a "Ask Me Anything"...a sort of question and answer session on Reddit where Reddit users can pose questions to well known people and get responses to a range of questions).  However, after Taylor's termination, Reddit made some missteps, which as this article points out, employers can use as a learning tool on what not to do going forward when terminating high profile employees.  Well worth a review!


Employees Seek Additional Pay for Checking E-mail After Hours: An Emerging Issue?

Labor & Employment Insights has a good note on a recent case in Illinois that involves a group of Chicago police officers who did business related work on a mobile device, after they were already done with work, and now seek to be compensated for this time.  These non-exempt employees bring an interesting issue to trial...and in fact, one that I have seen before:  At what point do off the clock work related activities become compensable time for non-exempt employees?  Interesting to see how this plays out.


A Closer Look at the Department of Labor's Proposed Changes to the Overtime Rules

Readers may remember a note I posted a few weeks ago on the Department of Labor's proposal to change the white collar overtime exemption under the FLSA.  (What I've Been Reading This Week - Department of Labor Changes Ahead?).  This is a well written article on what the current overtime structure looks like now and how it could be impacted if the Department of Labor's proposed changes go into effect.

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