Should you pay if your business is attacked by ransomware?
Cleveland Hopkins Airport flight information boards have been out of service since last Monday ( story here ). Yesterday, after paying con...
Archive: April 2019
I REALLY thought people knew better not to advertise jobs “for whites”
By Jon Hyman
Cynet Systems, an IT and engineering staffing company, had a viral mess on its hands over the weekend, after it posted a job that asked fo...
WIRTW #550 (the #NoSpoilers edition)
By Jon Hyman
What are your plans this weekend? I'll be avoiding the internet until 10:30 Sunday night. We have a 6:40 Saturday showing of Avengers:...
Supreme Court signs off on death by a thousand cuts
By Jon Hyman
Lingchi was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 BC until China banned in 1905. It translates variously as the sl...
This disability discrimination lawsuit was no party
By Jon Hyman
Party City has agreed with the EEOC to pay $155,000 to settle an ADA lawsuit the agency filed on behalf of a rejected job applicant on the ...
Supreme Court grants review in three cases to decide, once and for all, whether Title VII protects LGBTQ employees from discrimination
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals in three cases, to decide whether Title VII's prohibition against "sex discrimi...
Does Title VII protect heterosexuals from discrimination?
By Jon Hyman
So meet, ROBERTa! Shopping in the women’s department for a swimsuit at the BR Target. For all of you people that say you don’t care what ba...
WIRTW #549 (the #RespectIsComing edition)
By Jon Hyman
You might have heard that a little show called Game of Thrones premiered it's final season last Sunday. In its honor, Sesame Street prep...
How to fire an employee
By Jon Hyman
The Wall Street Journal recently asked this simple question: What's the Best Way to Fire Someone? I have some thoughts.
Bathroom conversations aren't private conversations
By Jon Hyman
Michael Woods, a mortgage banker at Quicken Loans, was having a bad day at work. A customer Woods had helped four years ago had been trying ...
That's how the ball bounces: 6th Circuit says that the ADA does not require a new supervisor as a reasonable accommodation
By Jon Hyman
Cindy Tinsley was so stressed. How stressed was she? She was so stressed that even something as simple as her co-workers at Caterpillar ...
Maybe you should rethink telling your employee you're firing him becaus of his heart problems
By Jon Hyman
Jonathan Baum worked as a scheduler for Metro Restoration Services. In late 2014, he began have cardiac problems. Over the course of the nex...
WIRTW #548 (the “working for the weekend” edition)
By Jon Hyman
I thought I'd update everyone on the summer goings-on of Northeast Ohio's favorite age-15-and-under cover band, Fake ID . They h...
The three things you need to know from the EEOC's 2018 charge data
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the EEOC released its charge statistics for 2018 . There are three big things you need to know.
When workplace training goes very, very wrong
By Jon Hyman
A few months ago I participated in active-shooter training. I presented harassment training for a local manufacturer, and, at its conclusion...
To help end sexual harassment, men MUST be better in reporting it when they witness it
By Jon Hyman
"Dad, something bad happened at recess today!" It's a refrain I sometimes hear at the dinner table. "Donovan, what h...
The 10th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the exorcising employer
By Jon Hyman
Is it too early to declare a winner for 2019's contest? According to the complaint Jason Fields fired against the Hampton Inn at wh...
WIRTW #547 (the “new music Friday” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Jenny Lewis just released the first great album of 2019. On The Line has witty and funny, yet touching and sad, lyrics, and beautiful m...
I fart in your general direction: flatulence as harassment?
By Jon Hyman
An Australian court has rejected an employee's claim that his supervisor unlawfully harassed him by farting on him. David Hingst sou...
The 9th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the fertile firing
By Jon Hyman
MoMA PS1, a Queens, New York, art museum, has agreed to settle a pregnancy discrimination claim brought by Nikki Columbus, hired by the m...
Happy New Regulation Tuesday! DOL proposes updates to the definitions of "regular rate" and "joint employer".
By Jon Hyman
Over the past week, the Department of Labor's announced proposals for significant (and much needed) regulatory updates to the definit...
What I learned on my Spring Break
By Jon Hyman
I just returned from eight days in Italy. It was a whirlwind Spring Break tour of Rome and Florence. We covered a lot of ground — per my App...