WIRTW #129
Surprise. "What I'm Reading..." is running one day early this week. Tomorrow is a much needed off-day for me, which will be fo...
Archive: May 2010
A weighty lawsuit: Hooters sued for asking waitress to shed a few pounds
By Jon Hyman
Last September I asked whether “fat” was the new protected class . A lawsuit filed earlier this week in Michigan seeks to answer this questi...
Do you know? Discovery of social networks in employment disputes
By Jon Hyman
I’ve long preached that employees should not enjoy an expectation of privacy in information they voluntarily place on the Internet, includin...
6 tips for handling electronic information in litigation
By Jon Hyman
Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC is considered the standard-bearer of lawyers’ and their clients’ responsibilities to preserve electronic infor...
WIRTW #128
By Jon Hyman
Another week, and another compilation of the best of the labor & employment blawgosphere that I didn’t write. Is Bad Taste the...
Quarter-billion dollar verdict in sex discrimination suit highlights risks of family responsibility discrimination
By Jon Hyman
In October 2009, Working Mother magazine named Novartis Pharmaceuticals one of its 100 best companies for working families , lauding its fl...
A textbook example of Facebook firing
By Jon Hyman
I spent the summer between my junior and senior years of high school bussing tables in a nursing home dining room. Not the world’s most glam...
Do you know? Admissibility of settlement offers
By Jon Hyman
Sometimes, employers are blindsided by a lawsuit. The first you might learn that an ex-employee is suing you is when you are served the comp...
What employers need to know about EEO
By Jon Hyman
On Friday, I had the pleasure of appearing on Newton Software ’s podcast, Equal Employment Opportunity & Affirmative Action: What Every ...
WIRTW #127
By Jon Hyman
The nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court was the top legal story of the week. Here’s a snippet of the blogosphere’s commentary o...
Presenting: The Top 5 Issues Confronting Your HR Practices
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, KJK's Labor & Employment Group presented our first Breakfast Briefing of the year, The Top 5 Issues Confronting Your HR P...
Battle of the accommodations
By Jon Hyman
Almost a month ago, I wrote about how businesses should go about opening their doors to employees’ pets . At the time, I flagged potential A...
Do you know? Are your employees getting Unvarnished?
By Jon Hyman
What is Unvarnished ? It’s a website (currently in private beta) that you should be very concerned about. TechCrunch describes it as a webs...
Does the punishment fit the crime in your workplace?
By Jon Hyman
Last week, this happened at a Philadelphia Phillies game: A fan ran onto the field, and was promptly tasered by the police. “What d...
WIRTW #126
By Jon Hyman
Believe it or not, Sunday is the three year anniversary of the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog. Need proof? Here’s a link to my very first post, M...
Caregiver discrimination, three years later
By Jon Hyman
It’s been nearly three years since the EEOC published its Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Workers with Caregiving R...
Common sense interview questions
By Jon Hyman
Most businesses know that there are certain topics that simply are off limits during job interviews. Questions about race, sex, age, religio...
Do you know? DOL to require “compliance plans”
By Jon Hyman
Now we know what the Department of Labor plans to do with the 250 new investigators it recently hired . They are going to sifting through ma...
Your business is behind the 8-ball if you don’t have an email policy
By Jon Hyman
Here’s some sobering stats on employees’ personal use of corporate email, courtesy of the Ruth Mantell at the Wall Street Journal : 71%...