• “Lying to Doctors for Fitness for Duty Exam Can Still Get You Fired …But Only If You’re a Police Officer” [Connecticut cop smashed into two cars during epileptic seizure; Daniel Schwartz]
• “Emotional labor”: is having to be cheerful to customers a form of capitalist slavery? [Tim Noah v. Andrew Sullivan]
• CalPERS: “The pension fund that ate California” [Steve Malanga, City Journal]
• Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), other “worker centers” on the rise: “Will ‘alt-labor’ replace unions?” [Salon; critical anti-ROC site via Matt Patterson/CEI]
• Without benefit of an act of Congress, EEOC is interpreting the law to prohibit transgender bias [Workplace Prof]
• “The Nation: Government-Mandated Lunch Breaks are Somehow Libertarians’ Fault” [Shackford, Reason]
• Historian challenges received account of Haymarket Affair [Ron Radosh]

Filed under: Connecticut, disabled rights, EEOC, labor unions, police, transgender, wage and hour suits, workplace