An employee must ask for ADA accommodation to receive it
By now, hopefully everyone reading this blog knows that the expiration of an employee’s 12 weeks of annual FMLA leave is not necessarily the...
Archive: November 2014
It’s five in a row for the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100
By Jon Hyman
For the fifth year in a row, I am honored that the ABA Journal has chosen the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog for the Blawg 100 , its list of the...
There is no easy fix for the overtime-pay problem
By Jon Hyman
Those of you who are long time readers know they I’ve long rallied for changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act . The law is overly complex, ...
WIRTW #346 (the #grossatwork edition)
By Jon Hyman
Gawker wants to know, “ What’s the Grossest Thing You've Ever Done at Work? ” Me? I very accidentally walked in on a very naked octoge...
Don’t forget the photo authorizations for your holiday party
By Jon Hyman
Are you having a holiday party for your company? Are you planning on sharing the cheer by posting photos of said party on your corporate Fac...
Jury verdicts are just numbers on a paper
By Jon Hyman
On Monday, a California jury awarded a former Autozone employee $185 million in punitive damages. She had sued the company for pregnancy di...
More on data security as an unfair labor practice
By Jon Hyman
A few months ago, I wrote how the NLRB was exploring new areas of potential protected concerted activity to regulate. One such area is info...
6th Circuit rules in favor of nonprofit in discrimination claim brought by volunteers
By Jon Hyman
In Bryson v. Middlefield Volunteer Fire Dep’t , the 6th Circuit held that a “volunteer” can qualify as an employee covered by Title VII unde...
WIRTW #345 (the “earworm” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Ever since my wife and I went to see Rhett Miller a couple of weeks ago, Lost Without You has been stuck in an unending loop in our collec...
Are you doing enough to protect your trade secrets from theft in the cloud?
By Jon Hyman
Do your employees use Dropbox (or Google Drive, or Box, or iCloud, etc.) to store work documents? The appeal of these cloud services is easy...
Recap of #hrintelchat on pregnancy discrimination
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday afternoon, Jeff Nowak and I had a lively tête-à-tête on Twitter—aka the #hrintelchat—on all things pregnancy discrimination. In c...
Putting paternity leave on equal footing with maternity leave, #hrintelchat
By Jon Hyman
This afternoon, from 3 – 4 pm, EST, I, along with my friend, Jeff Nowak , will be hosting a TweetChat for Thompson Information Services on t...
Directing the delicate union decertification dance
By Jon Hyman
It was one of the most tense moments of my career. One for the union, one for the employer. That’s how the folded pieces of paper lifted out...
WIRTW #344 (the “potty police” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Do you know what rights your employees have to use the bathroom at work? Earlier this morning, Adrienne Mitchell and I discussed that very ...
Not all speech on social media is protected
By Jon Hyman
I’ve spilled a ton of ink over the past few years warning employers about the risks and pitfalls that lurk in attempting to act against an e...
The New Kid says thank you @rhettmiller — #NailedIt
By Jon Hyman
One of the benefits of maintaining this very public forum is having the opportunity to share with you some personal insight into my family. ...
“I honestly bet you’re big down there.” SNL tackles workplace diversity training.
By Jon Hyman
NBC does itself a disservice by running classic episodes of Saturday Night Live each week, because the old episodes merely reinforce that th...
Ohio considers paid leave for quarantined employees
By Jon Hyman
As just-back-from-Sierra-Leone Kaci Kickox continues to fight efforts to bind her to a mandatory 21-day Ebola quarantine, states around the ...