Ask an Expert: Are We Required to Let an Employee on Short-Term Disability Work from Home?

Start by reviewing any medical documentation to confirm that the employee has been released to return to work and determine if he or she has any physical limitations that would impact a work-from-home arrangement. Consider whether to require a doctor to certify that the employee is able to work in accordance with your normal fitness-for-duty policies. https://goo.gl/x6d127 #GlobalHR #HRTech

Workplace Drug Policy Updates: Just Say Yes

Although marijuana is still against federal law, 30 states have permitted the drug for medicinal purposes and nine of them also allow—or soon will allow—recreational use. Moreover, in the past year, some state courts have held that employers can’t discipline workers based on their status as medical marijuana cardholders. https://goo.gl/zFqGyC #GlobalHR #HRTech

Setting Up a Failover Scenario Using Apache Camel ZooKeeper

ICYMI: In this article, we will discuss using the Apache Camel ZooKeeper component, and demonstrate how easily we can set up a fail-over scenario for Apache Camel Routes. While working in a clustered environment, situations arise where a user wants to have a backup or slave route which will become active only when the master (or the currently active) route stops working. There are different ways to achieve this: one can use Quartz to configure a master-slave setup; JGroups can also be used. In a Fabric8 environment, there is a master component which can easily be set up as a failover scenario.

There is one more way to discuss here in detail using ZooKeeperRoutePolicy. This policy uses a common znode (zookeeper registry) path across all instances. Each instance will be registered with a unique-id in the znode path; thus there will be a list of unique-ids. Each unique-id represents one instance of a route deployed with ZooKeeperRoutePolicy route policy. https://goo.gl/td2Zcw #DataIntegration #ML