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Archive: September 2010
Productivity, yes; sleeping on the job, no
By Jon Hyman
© Greg Hartmann Tony Schwartz, writing at the Harvard Business Review's The Conversation Blog , thinks that employees would be mor...
Grooming and appearance policies continue to make headlines as fulcrum of religious discrimination lawsuits
By Jon Hyman
Grow your dreadlocks Don’t be afraid of the wolf-pack A tell you, one man a walkin’ And a billion man a sparkin’ ...
Do you know? More on the lack of privacy in social media
By Jon Hyman
There are not (yet) many cases dealing with the discovery of litigants’ social networking information. Thus, whenever a court addresses the...
Silence can be golden in defending discrimination cases
By Jon Hyman
Ben Franklin once said, “As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.” In Young v. Galion, LLC (N.D. ...
WIRTW #145 (the bad legislation edition)
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this week , I urged you, my readers, to take a stand against the Paycheck Fairness Act by calling or emailing your Senators and expr...
Does rampant age discrimination in this job environment make sense?
By Jon Hyman
Motoko Rich writes in the New York Times that older unemployed workers may never work again: Of the 14.9 million unemployed, more than...
Social media isn’t the only media that can come back to haunt you
By Jon Hyman
It seems that every day, there is another example of an employee who got in trouble for something posted on Facebook, or Twitter, or one of ...
Paycheck Fairness Act poised for passage - This is a huge deal for employers
By Jon Hyman
The Washington DC Employment Law Update is reporting that the Senate is set to start debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, perhaps as early ...
Do you know? Men are entitled to protection from sexually hostile work environments too
By Jon Hyman
The typical sexual harassment case involves a man harassing a woman. Harassment, however, isn’t limited to just man-on-woman. The umbrella o...
More on cancer as a disability
By Jon Hyman
Last week I wrote how businesses would likely see more employees claim cancer as a protected disability under the Americans with Disabilitie...
WIRTW #144 (the shameless plug edition)
By Jon Hyman
For the last three years, the ABA has published its Blawg 100—a list of the best legal blogs as judged the the editors of the ABA Journal ....
Taking more than one bite at the apple in discrimination cases
By Jon Hyman
One of the anomalies of Ohio’s employment discrimination statute is that it provides for individual liability for managers’ and superviso...
Card check is dead … long live card check
By Jon Hyman
The NLRB is set to revisit its rules for secret ballot elections for voluntarily recognized unions. If it reverses course, it will administ...
Do you know? Discrimination against Muslims
By Jon Hyman
We are now nine years post-9/11. To say that relations between Americans and Muslim-Americans are poor is an understatement. Our country has...
ADA Amendments redefine cancer as a disability
By Jon Hyman
More than two years ago, I criticized a case that dismissed an employee’s disability discrimination claim on the basis that his cancer was ...
WIRTW #143 (the “Are you ready for some football edition?”)
By Jon Hyman
This weekend truly is one of the best sports weekends of the year. It’s opening Sunday for the NFL. Everyone’s 0-0 (even the Browns, who, ...
Is organized labor finally making its resurgence?
By Jon Hyman
Maybe its appropriate (or entirely a coincidence) that during the week in which we celebrate Labor Day, there have been so many stories in t...
EEOC settlement provides really good practice points for combating harassment
By Jon Hyman
Last week, the EEOC announced the settlement of the sexual harassment claims of 21 female janitorial workers against their employer, ABM In...
Do you know? FMLA medical certifications: if you don't ask, then you can't deny
By Jon Hyman
In Branham v. Gannett Satellite Information (9/2/10) [pdf] , the Sixth Circuit faced the issue of whether a negative medical certification ...
Happy Labor Day
By Jon Hyman
http://www.gocomics.com/reallifeadventures/2010/09/06/ Presented by Kohrman Jackson & Krantz , with offices in Cleveland and Colum...
WIRTW #142 (“It’s the bitches that’ll get yas” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this month, the Second Circuit, in Pucino v. Verizon Communications , held that repeated use of the word “bitch” could create a host...