Coronavirus Update 9-29-21: We need to talk about the rise in anti-Semitism and Nazi symbolism
"You're being a Nazi by mandating masks and vaccines." "'Papers, please.' I refuse as a condition of entering a s...
Archive: September 2021
Coronavirus Update 9-28-21: White House issues Covid vaccine mandate guidance for federal contractors and subcontractors
By Jon Hyman
If your business is a federal contractor or subcontractor, you have until December 8 to ensure that your employees are fully vaccinated aga...
Coronavirus Update 9-27-21: Repeat after me. “A vaccine mandate is not coercive.”
By Jon Hyman
Today's post is for anyone who believes that a workplace vaccine mandate is coercive or deprives employees of their free choice not to g...
WIRTW #597: the “Sorry Antivaxxer” edition
By Jon Hyman
If you've visited me on LinkedIn or Twitter (and if we're not connected on both, please fix that immediately), you may have notice...
Coronavirus Update 9-23-21: If you’re tired of reading what I have to say about workplace vaccine mandates, now you can listen to what I have to say
By Jon Hyman
A huge thank you to the producing team at WCPN 's The Sound of Ideas and host Rick Jackson for inviting me on to yesterday's progr...
Coronavirus Update 9-21-21: Covid-19 has now killed as many Americans as the Spanish flu
By Jon Hyman
Covid-19 just passed a grim, sad, and preventable milestone. It has killed as many Americans, 675,000, as the last pandemic we suffered, the...
Coronavirus Update 9-20-21: Fetal stem cells and vaccine-mandate religious exemptions
By Jon Hyman
As the debate over religious exemptions to workplace Covid vaccine mandates, one hospital has taken a unique approach to verify the sincerit...
WIRTW #596: the “Waterloo" edition
By Jon Hyman
It was a busy week in the Hyman house last week, with middle school soccer games and rock 'n' roll gigs all over town for my kids. I...
Coronavirus Update 9-15-21: Do mandatory vaccination policies have an adverse impact on minority employees?
By Jon Hyman
With President Biden's announcement of his plan to vaccinate all employees of employers with 100 or more employees, the nation is keenl...
Employment law lessons from “Ted Lasso” – dating the boss
By Jon Hyman
If you've not yet watched episode 8 (Man City) of the current second season of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso and you don't want to be s...
Coronavirus Update 9-11-21: Here is why the vaccination ETS that Biden has directed OSHA to issue is likely illegal
By Jon Hyman
President Biden has directed OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) mandating that all employers with 100 or more employees ma...
WIRTW #595: The “future of paid leave" edition
By Jon Hyman
For all the negative effects that the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought, it has imparted some very positive changes to the American workplace. F...
BREAKING NEWS: Biden to announce vaccine mandate for all employers with 100 or more employees
By Jon Hyman
CNN is reporting that President Biden will announce an executive order directing the Department of Labor to draft an emergency rule requiri...
Coronavirus Update 9-9-21: Don’t forget about overtime laws when paying employees pandemic-related bonuses
By Jon Hyman
If you pass any restaurant these days you'll almost certainly see a sign like this one: "Now hiring: $________ sign-on bonus....
Coronavirus Update 9-8-21: Ohio court reverses itself, orders that hospital does not have to administer ivermectin to its Covid patient
By Jon Hyman
Last week I reported on a trial court case out of Butler County, Ohio, in which a common pleas judge granted the wife of a hospitalized Cov...
“Ted Lasso" and the difference between illegal harassment and legal (but still wrong) bullying
By Jon Hyman
If you're watching Ted Lasso, you're familiar with the story of Nathan Shelley, kit man turned coach turned Wonder Kid. Season 2 tel...
WIRTW #594: the “three fests and a wine bar” edition
By Jon Hyman
If you're in Northeast Ohio, let me suggest four ways for you to spend your time over the next couple of weeks — all involving my daught...
The 12th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the Pregnancy Prognosticator
By Jon Hyman
If I know one thing, and only one thing, as a man (okay, two things) it's these: NEVER joke about a woman's weight and never ask a w...
Shredding documents during litigation is a bad, bad idea (a “Worst Employer" nominee update)
By Jon Hyman
Activision Blizzard was my 11th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2021 . Among the alleged sins that earned its nomination — a key software ...