Roundup: Religious accommodation; Age discrimination based on being young; Labor union issues with AI; Violence at work; NLRA employee speech rights

Here's a great discussion of religious accommodation and some excellent advice on how handle situations where someone needs special treatment because of their religion.

Discrimination is about seeing people as different and therefore less than or other than "us," whoever us may be. Making assumptions about someone's ability to do work because they are younger is just as bad as making assumptions because they are older or anything else that has nothing to do with someone's abilities or qualifications.

Here's more on Darth Vader's new AI cloned voice and how it may have violated labor law and the duty to bargain.

I really appreciated this piece on what to consider and how to plan for potential workplace violence. The advice is solid. The only thing I would add is when in doubt about what to do, err on the side of safety and care.

Only the employment lawyers think it's a big deal that the NLRB periodically shifts the standard for whether employment policies violate employee rights to talk about work. I'm not sure whether it matters that much what the standard is.