By Jon Hyman
One employer is an anomaly, two is a trend that must be stopped. Last week, I nominated for the Worst Employer of 2020 an unnamed natio...
By Jon Hyman
A quick reminder that I’ll be live on Zoom today from 1 - 2 pm ET discussing all things Coronavirus, including the DOL’s most recent addit...
By Jon Hyman
Late yesterday, the DOL published a second round of FAQs (numbers 15-37) answering more questions on the operation of paid family and sic...
By Jon Hyman
After a week of self-imposed quarantine in my home, and a week of mandatory sheltering in place by the State, now is as good a time as any...
By Jon Hyman
The speed at which the coronavirus news cycle moves is dizzying. Is it possible that the DOL’s FFCRA Employee Rights Poster is correct as ...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday I held my first Zoominar. (Is this an actual word, or did I just make it up?) I opened up my Zoom room for the first 100 people to...
By Jon Hyman
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act has an effective no later than 15 days after President Trump signed it. He signed in late in the...
By Jon Hyman
Can we just close the poll now and announce today’s nominee the winner? If anyone can verify the identity of this employer I’d love to kno...
By Jon Hyman
There are so many questions about all things coronavirus and workplace, I thought I’d try something new for all of my valued readers. Tomo...
By Jon Hyman
The question I’ve received the most in the past week is the difference between a layoff and a furlough. Both are reductions in force cause...
By Jon Hyman
Effective Monday, March 23, 2020, at 11:59 pm, and continuing through at least April 6, the State of Ohio, via an order of Dr. Amy Acton, ...
By Jon Hyman
The Department of Treasury, the Department of Labor, and the IRS announced impending regulations that will help covered businesses navigat...
By Jon Hyman
What did you do to feed your soul this week? I’ve been sheltered at home with my family. We’ve decided to self-quarantine because our 11-yea...
By Jon Hyman
Five days. That’s all it took for both parties in both houses of Congress to work together, along with the White House and President Tru...
By Jon Hyman
This afternoon , by a margin of 90 - 8, the Senate passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act . It will now go to President Trump f...
By Jon Hyman
It looks like the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is one step closer to becoming law … just not quite yet. During a lunch meet...
By Jon Hyman
For the time being, I have rebranded the Ohio Employer Law Blog as the Coronavirus Law Blog . I’ll be using this space to offer daily upd...
By Jon Hyman
In the past 48 hours, I’ve received a lot of emails and other correspondence asking questions about the Families First Coronavirus Respo...
By Jon Hyman
It’s been 12 days since I asked if coronavirus the thing that will finally make paid family and sick leave a national reality . Twelve day...
By Jon Hyman
This has been one strange and disorienting week. I haven’t felt this disjointed since 9/11. No basketball ( pro or college ). No hock...
By Jon Hyman
Tomorrow, I was to receive my award from the Cleveland-area chapter of the National Association of Social Workers as its Public Citizen o...
By Jon Hyman
The difficulty in defending certain wage-and-hour cases is that employers are often asked to prove a negative. “I worked __ number of hour...
By Jon Hyman
As Ohio recorded its first three official coronavirus cases, I thought now is as good a time as any to share some COVID-19 resources I recen...
By Jon Hyman
Among other qualifying reasons, the FMLA allows an eligible employee to take 12 weeks of annual unpaid leave to care for a family member w...
By Jon Hyman
Life is often about competition. For example, I litigate for a living. Trials have winners and losers. We also compete for jobs, for college...
By Jon Hyman
Mistakes happen. Including in the context of employment decisions. But not every mistake amounts to actionable employment discrimination....
By Jon Hyman
If you’re Fox News reporter Brit Hume, you have a lot of explaining to do. Yesterday, the venerable journalist carelessly tweeted out his in...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, in response to my post about coronavirus and paid sick leave , a commenter on LinkedIn asked whether an employer can force a s...
By Jon Hyman
As of this morning, there are 88 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, with two deaths. According to the CDC , one of the b...