Don’t sleep on verifying reasonable accommodations
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash George Hirmiz, a front-desk clerk at a Travelodge Hotel, was caught on video sleeping in the hotel l...
Archive: March 2018
What does it mean to have “work/life balance”?
By Jon Hyman
What’s your definition of “work/life balance”? To me, work/life balance means that I have the flexibility to tend to the needs of fami...
Let’s all try to remember to have gender-neutral employment policies
By Jon Hyman
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash Former New Orleans Saints cheerleader Bailey Davis has filed a complaint with the EEOC accusing her form...
OSHA resources to protect healthcare workers
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Natanael Melchor on Unsplash You might think that construction workers or manufacturing employees have the highest rate of wor...
WIRTW #499 (the “boarding house” edition)
By Jon Hyman
The first time I ever heard of Jack White was August 10, 2001. I read about this up and coming band playing at the Beachland Ballroom . It ...
Ohio Chamber of Commerce takes the lead on fighting addiction at work with launch of its Employer Opioid Toolkit
By Jon Hyman
Nearly 50,000 Americans lost their lives to opioid-related overdoses in 2016. Compare that figure to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which recorde...
How can you transition older workers if you can’t force them to retire?
By Jon Hyman
A Michigan oral surgery practice has agreed to pay $47,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC . The agency alleged ...
I’m lovin’ it: McDonald’s settles joint employer case with NLRB
By Jon Hyman
It has been nearly four years since the NLRB filed complaints against McDonald’s, seeking to hold it liable as a joint employer for the u...
The 5th nominee for the “worst employer of 2018” is … the pension preventer
By Jon Hyman
ERISA section 510 provides: It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against...
WIRTW #498 (the “blarney” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Have you ever thought about what the Patron Saint of Ireland can teach...
Harassment training is about creating a culture, not checking a box
By Jon Hyman
Bloomberg reports that demand for anti-harassment training videos has surged in the #MeToo era. Here’s the problem, however. The Bloo...
How your problem employee is like an old hot water tank
By Jon Hyman
Last night, my hot water tank died. It was old (14, to be exact). During his shower, I heard Donovan yell, “Dad, there’s no hot water, a...
Tattoos at work: more acceptance, yet still some legal risk
By Jon Hyman
By ABC TV [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I am not a tattoo person. Yet, a whole lot of people are. And the numbers are increas...
Department of Labor trying to get employees PAID for inadvertent FLSA violations
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash For almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been preaching the proactive benefits of...
WIRTW #497 (the “love” edition)
By Jon Hyman
For the past 496 Fridays (plus a few off here and there) I have shared my list of what I read this week. Implicit in each share is my ...
6th Circuit is the latest court to conclude that Title VII expressly prohibits LGBT discrimination
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Yesterday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals joined a growing number of federal appellate cour...
“Measure twice, cut once," and, for the love of God, don’t email porn to everyone on your company’s contact list
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash In what may be the greatest (or, depending on your perspective, worst) employee mistake of all time, the...
The legal implications of employee tracking devices
By Jon Hyman
Photo by N. on Unsplash I once knew of company (not a client) at which its CEO would sit in his office all day and watch a bank of moni...
A lesson on how to terminate an employee, care of David Brent.
By Jon Hyman
In my opinion, the original British version of The Office is far superior to its American counterpart, in large part because David Brent is...
WIRTW #496 (the “troll” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Troll: “One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption ...
Save money on overtime payments with the fluctuating work week
By Jon Hyman
Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash In my never-ending quest to show you how many different ways you can screw up paying your employees u...