Roundup: PTO; Pay equity and comparable work; Culture fit and discrimination; Deepfakes and sexual harassment; Meal and rest breaks

This post gives you great research and sound advice about what to think about PTO policies and how to put them into practice.

How do you compare skills, effort, and responsibility for pay equity? It's tricky. There are judgment calls. But you are not limited to people who have the same job title or even the same kind of work. You're looking at work that has comparable value to the organization; it doesn't have to be the same.

If the best explanation for terminating someone who is claiming discrimination is that "they weren't a good culture fit," you might as well just say we fired them because they were old, brown, queer or a woman.

If I was advising a company where deepfakes were used to sexually harass someone or distributed behind their back, I would immediately terminate everyone involved. This type of material does not belong at work. And it should not belong in the world, unless the person depicted knows and explicitly consents.

If it's not a break, then it's work and nonexempt employees must be paid for all the time they work, even if they should really be at lunch. Don't let this happen.