Coronavirus Update 11-23-2020: Thankful
2020 has certainly been a year like no other. People are sick and dying. Hospitals are filling up. Our essential workers are stressed and ti...
Archive: November 2020
Coronavirus Update 11-20-2020: The 12th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … bad bettor
By Jon Hyman
Do you remember that scene from The Deer Hunter where Christopher Walken plays Russian roulette in a betting parlor, while the patrons plac...
Coronavirus Update 11-19-2020: Cuyahoga County issues four-week stay-at-home advisory
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday afternoon, Cuyahoga County, Ohio's largest, issued a four-week stay-at-home advisory . It took effect immediately, and is in a...
Coronavirus Update 11-18-2020: WFHH (work from home harassment)
By Jon Hyman
For last night's dinner, I decided to use the leftover meatballs from the prior night's spaghetti dinner to make meatball subs. The ...
Coronavirus Update 11-17-2020: Retaliation under the FFCRA is as illegal as is retaliation under any other employment statute
By Jon Hyman
MaryJo Delaney is suing her former employer after it demoted her from her management position following her return from a Covid-related layo...
The 11th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the horrific human traffickers
By Jon Hyman
Today's nominee for the Worst Employer of 2020 is beyond description. NBC Bay Area provides the details: A Gilroy couple has been charg...
Coronavirus Update 11-13-2020: Closing restaurants and bars is NOT the solution to fixing the spread of COVID-19
By Jon Hyman
During his most recent scolding of Ohio's citizens, Governor DeWine threatened to close restaurants and bars if the state's Covid nu...
Coronavirus Update 11-12-2020: Breaking down the potential liabilities in Ohio’s new mask rules
By Jon Hyman
During yesterday evening's statewide address , and amid dangerously rising COVID-19 infections and hospitalization, Governor Mike DeWine...
Coronavirus Update 11-11-2020: Working in an office instead of working from home doubles the risk of contracting COVID-19
By Jon Hyman
You are literally making Covid worse if you are refusing to permit employees to work from home. According to a recently published CDC study ...
Four Years
By Jon Hyman
November third 2020 Sitting anxiously on my bedroom floor I've got other things to worry about Like how I did on my test today But rathe...
Coronavirus Update 11-9-2020: COVID-19 and no-fault attendance policies
By Jon Hyman
Can you "point" an employee under a no-fault attendance policy for a coronavirus-related absence? For example, an employee sick wi...
Coronavirus Update 11-6-2020: Accountability
By Jon Hyman
The NFL has fined the Las Vegas Raiders $500,000 and stripped them of a 2021 draft pick for " brazen and repeated violations" of...
Coronavirus Update 11-5-2020: OSHA levies $2 million in COVID-related citations and penalties
By Jon Hyman
Are you tired of the endless din of vote counts and election news? Let's get back to the uplifting topic of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemi...
If you care about the future of democracy, then we have to count every single vote
By Jon Hyman
As I type at 6:30 am on the morning after, we still don't know who won the presidency. There are 9 states and 87 electoral votes undecid...
Music will get my through the next few days (I hope) — my survival playlist
By Jon Hyman
There is no doubt that life is stressful right now. Between the exponentially and dangerously rising COVID-19 numbers (and the unwillingness...