The more things change the more they stay the same
According to today's Columbus Dispatch , the Ohio Civil Rights Commission is considering adopting new regulations under which pregnant e...
Archive: July 2007
Family Responsibility Discrimination gains more coverage
By Jon Hyman
Family responsibility discrimination continues to gain traction. It was front and center in a featured piece in yesterday's New York Ti...
Why I love being an employment lawyer
By Jon Hyman
This article, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog, needs no further explanation: The Best Dentist Related Lawsuit Ever . You...
Foreign accents as direct evidence of national origin discrimination
By Jon Hyman
According to the EEOC : An employment decision based on foreign accent does not violate Title VII if an individual's accent materially i...
Jury verdict underscores rights of veterans
By Jon Hyman
A federal jury in Portland, Oregon, returned a $985,000 verdict in favor of a National Guardsman terminated by Target after his return from...
Federal minimum wage increases today
By Jon Hyman
Today is July 24, which means that the federal minimum wage increases from $5.15 to $5.85 an hour. The Department of Labor is even nice eno...
Small claims court needs reform
By Jon Hyman
Did you know that a company cannot represent itself in an Ohio small claims court? An employee is free to go to small claims court and file...
Mind your (mis)represenations - part 3
By Jon Hyman
The Sixth Circuit has recently published two opinions on the issue of employer misrepresentations under ERISA and COBRA: Thurman v. Pfizer,...
Sedona Conference publishes the Second Edition of its Sedona Principles Addressing Electronic Document Production
By Jon Hyman
For those interested in e-discovery, the Sedona Conference, one of the country's preeminent legal think tanks in the areas of antitrust ...
Are we overreacting to Ledbetter?
By Jon Hyman
Today's New York Times reports on current efforts by Senate Democrats to introduce equal pay legislation in light of the Supreme Court...
Vicarious release held ineffective
By Jon Hyman
Edwards v. Ohio Inst. of Cardiac Care is not earth shattering for what it says, but I write because of the novel argument made by the emplo...
FMLA waivers pose a potential trap
By Jon Hyman
There are few worse feelings than being sued by an employee with whom you had previously negotiated a severance or settlement agreement and ...
EEOC confirms that it is not age discrimination to favor older workers
By Jon Hyman
The EEOC on Friday published revised regulations on age discrimination that conform with the Supreme Court's 2004 ruling in General Dyna...
Emotional distress damages are taxable
By Jon Hyman
In rehearing Murphy v. IRS , decided 11 months ago, the same three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit has reversed itself and held that damages...
Harassment training must be effective to provide a defense
By Jon Hyman
A case handed down by the Sixth Circuit last week provides a good example of how not to handle a sexual harassment investigation. In Parker ...