Coronavirus Update 9-30-2020: Covid, hazard pay, and overtime
Wage and hour compliance is complicated enough for employers. Layer a pandemic on top of wage and hour compliance, and you have an absolute ...
Archive: September 2020
Coronavirus Update 9-29-2020: The 9th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the covid denier
By Jon Hyman
The human resources manager for a New Hampshire company is suing her former employer after she sent an email about COVID-19 to employees and...
What one debate question would you ask each candidate?
By Jon Hyman
Tomorrow night, a mere 16 miles from my home, President Trump and Vice President Biden will step in front of the cameras to make their respe...
Coronavirus Update 9-25-2020: The show must go on
By Jon Hyman
This year has been challenging for everyone. COVID-19 has forced everyone to be innovative with everything. Case in point, high school theat...
Coronavirus Update 9-24-2020: Comorbidities, Covid-19, and your employees
By Jon Hyman
Let's talk about comorbidities . A comorbidity is the simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient. In the c...
DOL publishes proposed regulations that would make it easier for employers to classify workers as independent contractors
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposed rule amending its regulations on how to determine whether a worker is an emplo...
“Religious freedom” ≠ freedom to discriminate (but sometimes it must be accommodated anyway)
By Jon Hyman
The EEOC has sued an Arkansas Kroger after it fired two of its employees for allegedly objecting to its new dress code that required employe...
Coronavirus Update 9-21-2020: the CDC continues to create a mess for employers on testing; and a word on RBG
By Jon Hyman
Last Friday, the CDC yet again updated its guidance for COVID-19 testing. If you're keeping count, this is the CDC's fifth set of te...
Coronavirus Update 9-18-2020: advocacy for others as protected conduct under the ADA
By Jon Hyman
In Kirilenko-Ison v. Board of Education of Danville Independent Schools , the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employee who engages...
Coronavirus Update 9-17-2020: The pandemic plight of working moms
By Jon Hyman
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on employees. A recent report published by Policy Matters Ohio illustrates just...
Coronavirus Update 9-16-2020: Federal court holds state indefinite Covid-closure orders are unconstitutional
By Jon Hyman
In County of Butler v. Wolf , Judge William S. Stickman IV of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (a r...
Coronavirus Update 9-15-2020: Is your business ready for the coming “tidal wave” of COVID-19 employee lawsuits?
By Jon Hyman
A Texas man sues, claiming he wasn't allowed to keep teleworking after the office reopened A Kentucky worker sues after being fired for ...
Coronavirus Update 9-14-2020: DOL issues revised FFCRA regulations; what’s changed and what hasn’t?
By Jon Hyman
In early August, a New York federal district court judge issued an order invaliding several key provisions in the DOL's FFCRA regulatio...
Coronavirus Update 9-11-2020: The anatomy of a losing legal argument
By Jon Hyman
Deborah Kofler worked for Sayde Steeves Cleaning Service as a residential and commercial cleaner. Beginning on April 1, Kofler requested pai...
Coronavirus Update 9-10-2020: The coming wave of Covid-related age discrimination lawsuits
By Jon Hyman
The EEOC has sued Ohio State University for age discrimination, alleging that the school discriminated against a 53-year-old human resourc...
Coronavirus Update 9-9-2020: The 8th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … 🎶 it’s corona after all 🎶
By Jon Hyman
It's a world of sickness A world of tears It's a world of death And a world of fears There's so much that we share That it...
Diversity training is the opposite of “anti-American"
By Jon Hyman
Late last week, Russell Vought, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued a memo directing that from this point forward,...
Coronavirus Update 9-4-2020: “Normal"
By Jon Hyman
Last Saturday, for one glorious evening, I felt "normal." I dined out at a restaurant for the first time in nearly six months. Col...
Coronavirus Update 9-3-2020: County health department fires five for quarantine order violation
By Jon Hyman
Erie County, Ohio, has fired five health department employees for violating a quarantine order. What happened? Fox 8 provides the details : ...
Coronavirus Update 9-2-2020: Ohio set to activate COVID-19 liability shield for businesses
By Jon Hyman
Both houses of Ohio's legislature have passed legislation that will grant a liability shield to businesses for claims related to COVID-1...
Coronavirus Update 9-1-2020: Vaccines — can an employer require them; should an employer require them?
By Jon Hyman
There are currently more than two dozen COVID-19 vaccines in development world wide, as pharmaceutical companies race to perfect a viable va...