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Archive: February 2012
In the wake of a tragedy, more on humanity and human resources
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday was a tragic day in Northeast Ohio. I extend my thoughts and prayers to anyone affected by the horrors at Chardon High School . ...
6th Circuit: Employee must know about harassment to complain about it
By Jon Hyman
Berryman v. SuperValu Holdings, Inc. (6th Cir. 2/24/12) [pdf] concerns the racial harassment allegations of 11 different employees, spanni...
WIRTW #214 (the “errata” edition)
By Jon Hyman
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation about legal blogging to the Ohio Women’s Bar Association Leadership Institute. During my talk the ques...
NLRB refuses to expand representation rights to non-union employees during investigatory interviews
By Jon Hyman
The NLRB’s Acting General Counsel continues to try to chip away at the rights of non-unionized employers . His latest involves an attempt to...
Sitting on the dock … of the paycheck (or how to lose an employee’s exemption in 1 easy step)
By Jon Hyman
The hallmark of the key exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (administrative, executive, and professional) is that the exempt emplo...
Putting the “human” back in human resources (or, how the FMLA covers life-support decisions)
By Jon Hyman
On April 4, 2006, Jerry Romans Plaintiff received a call at work from his sister, who told him that his terminally ill mother was unlikely t...
8 things you need to know about holiday pay
By Jon Hyman
Today is Presidents’ Day . According to a recent poll of employers conducted by SHRM , 34% of employers will be closed today. Whether you ar...
WIRTW #213 (the “Hello Cleveland!” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Above the Law (c/o the Chicago Sun-Times ) reports that Justice Scalia offered the following words of wisdom while speaking to a group of s...
Latest stats about supervisors being “Facebook friends” with employees reveals interesting generational data
By Jon Hyman
ZDNet’s Friending Facebook blog reports on a survey [pdf] conducted by marketing agency Russell Herder , which concluded that 21% of emplo...
What is an employee’s word for the need for FMLA leave worth? Not much
By Jon Hyman
How often does this scenario play out in your organization? An employee tells a supervisor that he’s sick and needs to take FMLA leave. The ...
Nothing can go wrong when employees date each other, right?
By Jon Hyman
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I bring you a story of love, romance … and sexual harassment (what else?). Sanders v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. ...
Let’s try not to over-react to the breastfeeding discrimination case
By Jon Hyman
Last month, I wrote that employers denying lactation rights to employees was not problem that needed remedial legislation. Wouldn’t you kno...
WIRTW #212 (the “something for nothing” edition)
By Jon Hyman
One of the benefits of hitting the road to speak as much as I do is all of the great people I meet. One of those people is Jessica Miller-Me...
What isn’t a “complaint” under the FLSA? An Ohio federal court weights in
By Jon Hyman
In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics , the United States Supreme Court concluded that the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair L...
Another consideration in the high cost of wage and hour litigation: e-discovery
By Jon Hyman
I’ve written before about the high risks companies face from wage and hour class/collective lawsuits ( here’s one example ). Here’s another ...
The digital divide and disparate impact
By Jon Hyman
According to statistics recently published by Mashable , the digital divide—those who are connected to the Internet versus those who are not...
A pisser of an HR policy
By Jon Hyman
I’m a firm believer in good, sound, and comprehensive HR policies. They are necessary evil to establish the baseline expectations between a ...
WIRTW #211 (the “Vegas, baby!” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Are you attending next week’s Social Media Strategies Summit in Las Vegas (presented by GSMI )? Social Media Today recently rated it as o...
What does Groundhog Day teach us about federal courts?
By Jon Hyman
In the movie Groundhog Day , Bill Murray repeats February 2—over, and over, and over again—until he gets it right. In Sollitt v. Keycorp (6t...
10 thoughts for your mobile device policy
By Jon Hyman
According to a recent survey , there are 324.3M mobile devices in the United States. Let that number sink in. It equates to 1.025 mobile dev...