Hello and welcome back to the grind, FOT Nation. Gear up for the week ahead with these five must reads…
1. ‘Honest Suspicion’ of FMLA Abuse is Justification for Firing. An employer who has an “honest suspicion” that a worker is abusing their Family and Medical Leave Act leave is justified in terminating that employee, says a federal appellate court.
2. Motorola Mobility to Cut Staff by a Fifth and Close One Third of Offices. Motorola Mobility announced on Sunday that it is going to slash around 20% of its global workforce and will also shut down a third of its offices. This equates to about 4,000 staff members, one third of which will be in the U.S.
3. Court Reviews Discrimination Lawsuit Against… the EEOC. A former employee of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has the green light to go ahead with her lawsuit that claims she was the victim of disability discrimination.
4. How do you execute your commute to the office? Iterations: A New Era of Transportation, outlines how entrepreneurs have been creating new behavioral models around transportation, leveraging social data, mobile devices, and marketplace inefficiencies to reinvent how we get around.
5. FOT is back in action with their August webinar, That’s Your Pitch? How to Raise Your Social Recruiting Game by Thinking Less Like ACME and More Like Apple. This webinar comes with the FOT guarantee that: 60% of the time it works every time. Register today!
Have a great week!
Holland, thank you so much for posting about such a topical issue–transportation. I’m always going on about how we deserve better transportation to my co-workers, and it seems that there are all of these alternatives coming from Start-Ups. I will comment that while all of the companies listed sound great, they all hinge on a car. It does seem that while some of these companies may be reducing the amount of cars on the road through donations and car-sharing, that’s not necessarily the objective, and it should be. Ultimately, more people and more cars with aging infrastructure is going to cause a huge (bigger than now) issue in the future.
I recognize that consensus + more money are the solutions to building out high speed rail in this country. But then you get into issues of eminent domain, security, etc. And once again, the cash required for such an initiative. Well, Amtrak’s come out with 2040 as the target for true high-speed rail in the NE corridor. Baby (really slow) steps I suppose.
Thanks, Kelli. While there is an obvious growing need for transportation alternatives in this country, I couldn’t agree more with your comment that consensus + funding are ultimately going to be the driving factors for development. I also feel that most residents of this country feel themselves “above” public options, despite the potential cost and environmental benefits. Even if there was an alternative transportation option made available, there would need to be population conditioning to actually reach adoption.
What city do you live in? Here in Atlanta we have the MARTA, which comes in handy for getting to the airport or a concert, but unfortunately the span of the city is too large to make it a viable option for most commuters.