By Jon Hyman
File this case under the category of never underestimate your opponent. The 6th Circuit has affirmed a trial court’s $120,000.50 verdict in ...
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? Year-end bonus payments could count as part of a non-exempt employee’s regular rate of pay, thereby increasing the overtime pre...
By Jon Hyman
Administration of FMLA leave probably causes more headaches for HR professionals than any other facet of their jobs. As if the FMLA is not c...
By Jon Hyman
Two topics dominate the employment law headlines this week – the new FMLA regulations and the continued debate over the prospects for the Em...
By Jon Hyman
The D.C. Circuit is considering an appeal by 16 former Anheuser-Busch employees who were disciplined or fired after the company installed hi...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, I examined 10 key changes in the new FMLA regulations to the legacy FMLA provisions . Today, I’ll break down the new regulations’...
By Jon Hyman
On Monday, November 17, 2008, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule to implement the first-ever amendments to the Family an...
By Jon Hyman
Do you have employees that travel for work? Do you know that only certain travel time may be considered compensable and therefore paid for? ...
By Jon Hyman
Next time you consider whether you really want to litigate a case, consider the following case study. On Friday, I reported about a case i...
By Jon Hyman
The title says it all. Once I've had a chance to digest the new regs (they're over 700 pages) I'll have more to say.
By Jon Hyman
The Employee Free Choice Act remains the hot labor and employment law topic. The stat of the week comes courtesy of the Delaware Employmen...
By Jon Hyman
HR Legal News provides a list of its top common mistakes in employee handbooks. The following discusses some of the list, offers some tips ...
By Jon Hyman
An adverse employment action in a discrimination case is an action by an employer that effects a significant change in one’s employment stat...
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? In Ohio, employers should preserve personnel files for six years after an employee leaves an organization. Under Ohio Revised ...
By Jon Hyman
Workforce Management and SlashGear both report that Dell is encouraging its employees to take an unpaid week off as a means to cut costs a...
By Jon Hyman
It only seems fitting to begin this week with a small roundup of some of the blog posts I’ve tagged about the election: Pennsylvania La...
By Jon Hyman
As I've written before, Title VII requires employers to reasonably accommodate an employee whose sincerely held religious belief, practi...
By Jon Hyman
A lot of ink has been spilled already, with tons more to come, about just how truly historic last night was. Given our country’s history, on...
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? The Pregnancy Discrimination Act turned 30 years old last week. The PDA outlawed employment discrimination on the basis of “pre...
By Jon Hyman
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a client ask me, “I thought perjury is illegal. How can she lie during her deposition like that?” W...