Liz Baker Plosser is back in the co-host seat this week and we brought in Adam Rapoport to talk about the do's and don'ts of office lunches. Bring your own bowl. Clean the dishes. Do not, under any circumstances, microwave fish or crack a hard-boiled egg within smelling distance of another human. Adam's got the full rulebook, and Peter's ready to write it into every employee handbook in America.
Then we get into the legal stuff: what a manager should do when an employee's writing reeks of AI (spoiler — the fix doesn't require ever saying the letters "A" and "I"), the Hyrox Beijing scandal that turned an elite athlete's worst day into an international controversy with real workplace-safety implications, and the growing list of employers getting called out for what they owe their people — Cigna employees petitioning to get GLP-1 coverage reinstated, and Amazon quietly tripling its number of warehouse workers on food stamps while profits climb. We close it out with the CFDA president's very physical, very filmed confrontation with protesters at a fashion show — and what happens to an executive's career when there's no security team standing between him and a bad decision.
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Employment attorney Peter Rahbar and veteran journalist Laura Brounstein's weekly conversation about how the news is affecting the laws that govern our daily work and personal life. We cover negotiation, workplace privacy, pop culture and more!