You may remember that in my last blog entry I informed our readers that many lawyers are now using blogs as a marketing tool to promote themselves, their law firms, and their expertise. The typical employment law blog, however, is usually far from interesting. They often include items such as riveting summaries of the latest wage and hour cases and settlements along with “helpful” tips. I can summarize an example for you here: Wal-Mart agrees to pay $86 million to settle wage and hour claims for alleged failure to pay former California workers for overtime and unused vacation pay. (See In re Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wage and Hour Litigation.) To avoid class actions like the one filed against Walmart, it is important to make sure your company policies are up to date with current law. Your employment lawyer can help you avoid Wal-Mart’s mistakes. YAWN! 
Thankfully, Mark Tosh, employment lawyer and Chief Legal Officer of Manpower Inc.’s* North America Operations, has created a better kind of legal “blawg” – the Manpower Employment Blawg. Highlights from the “blawg” include: Tosh’s weekly legal analysis of NBC’s “The Office”, covering both serious issues and seriously funny jokes; regular contests for readers and webinar viewers to win prizes by spotting fake laws and missed legal issues from his “Office” analyses; a link to the best lawyer jokes; and Tosh, himself, playing Elvis in the video “How To Hire If You Want To Get Fired.”
In addition to providing witty and interesting content, Tosh’s “blawg” also provides a credible and reliable source of informative legal tips and resources for executives and human resources professionals, including “cheat sheets” on numerous employment laws, legal news updates, a sample social media policy for the workplace, and a great piece on “Why You Should Care About Employment Law.” You can also follow the Manpower Employment Blawg on Twitter at @manpowerblawg.
Meredith D. Williams is an employment lawyer in Los Angeles, California and a partner at Miller | Williams LLP, an employment litigation and counseling law firm, providing businesses of all sizes, as well as selected employees, experienced and cost-effective legal services in a wide range of employment-related litigation and counseling matters, including matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour issues.
Contact Meredith at mwilliams@millerwilliamslaw.com
*Manpower Inc. is a world-wide recruiting, staffing, and human resources consulting firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
