WIRTW #64
It’s been a very busy week. We had the first employment law Supreme Court decision and the first new employment law of the new year. And, ...
Archive: January 2009
Materials from KJK’s Breakfast Briefing are available
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, blizzard and all, KJK held its inaugural Employment Law Breakfast Briefing. We covered the Top 10 Labor & Employment Issues f...
As promised, President Obama signs Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
By Jon Hyman
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/obama.fair.pay/index.html for the details.
6 tips to avoid an employment lawsuit
By Jon Hyman
For the past two days, BLR’s HR Daily Advisor has been looking behind enemy lines and providing tips from a plaintiffs lawyer on mistakes em...
A primer on inclement weather policies
By Jon Hyman
It seems appropriate as today’s snowstorm plays havoc on KJK’s inaugural Breakfast Briefing to spend some time talking about inclement weath...
Note the effective date of the Ledbetter bill
By Jon Hyman
From PointofLaw.com , on the effective date of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, and the amendments mad...
Do you know? The FLSA’s exemptions for salespeople
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? The FLSA has two different exemptions that could cover salespeople – the outside sales employee exemption and the commissioned...
Supreme Court rules that retaliation includes participating in internal investigations
By Jon Hyman
In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held today that Title VII’s anti-retaliation provision covers employees who answer quest...
Reverse age discrimination should not be a concern in layoffs
By Jon Hyman
Last week, BusinessWeek ran the following headline: Employers Avoid Axing Oldies but Goodies . The crux of the story is that the current wa...
Ledbetter passes Senate – President’s signature is next
By Jon Hyman
It’s looking like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act will be the first piece of legislation President Obama will sign into law. The Washington...
WIRTW #63
By Jon Hyman
If you check out only one other link this week, click over the Connecticut Employment Law Blog , where Dan Schwartz writes an Inauguration D...
More lessons from children’s lit: Dr. Seuss
By Jon Hyman
As either my wife or I do every night, our daughter was put to bed last night with a book (or four). On the list last night was one of my al...
Unions should not bet on the EFCA as a sure thing
By Jon Hyman
As President Obama was taking the oath of office, inside some office in some executive office building in Washington D.C., someone flipped a...
Reminder: It’s not too late to RSVP for KJK’s Breakfast Briefing
By Jon Hyman
There is still time to RSVP for KJK’s inaugural Employment Law Breakfast Briefing: The Top 10 Labor & Employment Law Issues to Face Your...
Do you know? Ohio’s jury duty rules for employers
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? Ohio has specific rules that govern how employers handle employees who are summoned for jury duty – Ohio Revised Code 2313.18 ....
Drafting an appropriate social networking policy
By Jon Hyman
According to a recent report published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project , the percentage of adults who use social networking ...
WIRTW #62
By Jon Hyman
What are my contemporaries writing about this week? Let’s take a look. George’s Employment Blawg and the National Law Journal both share...
Tomorrow is “FMLA Day.” Is your company ready?
By Jon Hyman
Tomorrow, January 16, is FMLA Day – the day the new FMLA regulations take effect. If a business is covered by the FMLA (it employs 50 or mo...
Hooters sued for not hiring men
By Jon Hyman
An alleged rejected male job applicant for a food server position at a Corpus Christi, Texas, Hooters has filed a class action sex discrimin...
Do you know? “Comp” time in lieu of overtime
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? Unless you are a state or local government, it is illegal to provide “comp” time in lieu of time-and-a-half for hours worked in...
What do the recent ADA amendments really mean to employers?
By Jon Hyman
A lot of ink has been spilled about the nuts and bolts of the amendments to the ADA. The amendments make some key fundamental changes to var...
WIRTW #61
By Jon Hyman
What I’m Reading returns after an extended holiday break. To follow up on my post from earlier this week on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, M...
Five “must haves” for your employee handbook
By Jon Hyman
I’m in the process of drafting an employee handbook, which got me thinking – what are the policies that every handbook absolutely must conta...
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act likely to be first employment legislation of the Obama Presidency
By Jon Hyman
According to Monday’s New York Times , Congressional Democrats are looking to fast-track the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This should not c...
Do you know? The FLSA’s Administrative Exemption
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? What does it take for an employee to qualify under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s Administrative Exemption? To qualify for th...
Blawg Review of the Year nominations
By Jon Hyman
For the uninitiated, Blawg Review is a weekly compilation of the prior week’s best posts from the legal blogosphere. It’s peer-reviewed, wh...
Announcing the KJK Employment Law Breakfast Briefing
By Jon Hyman
On Wednesday, January 28, 2009, Kohrman Jackson & Krantz will hold its inaugural Employment Law Breakfast Briefing: The Top 10 Labor ...
A few predictions for 2009
By Jon Hyman
Since I ended 2008 with a look back at the top stories of the past year , I thought I’d start 2009 with a look forward at what to expect in ...