WIRTW #799: the 'inclusion' edition
Is it too much to ask a school to provide a gluten-free treat for my son? Donovan has Celiac disease. The school has known of his autoimmune...
Archive: May 2026
Can you harass someone for being American?
By Jon Hyman
The EEOC does not file many lawsuits. It receives tens of thousands of discrimination charges every year but litigates only a tiny fraction ...
"We'll look into it" is not a harassment response
By Jon Hyman
An employee says a coworker sexually assaulted her at work. Management says it will take the complaint seriously. HR says it will be involve...
COVID-era remote work doesn't make telework a permanent ADA accommodation requirement
By Jon Hyman
Remote work isn't the ADA accommodation silver bullet employees think it is. The 5th Circuit just drove that point home in Hayes v. GSt...
The 6th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Funeral Fragger
By Jon Hyman
There are bad managers. There are clueless managers. And then there's this manager, who just entered the race for Worst Employer of 2026...
Apparently, corporate America's commitment to working parents had conditions
By Jon Hyman
The pandemic-era "golden age of employee benefits" is over. At least, that's the message some employers are sending as compani...
The EEOC just gave employers an (inadvertent) roadmap on how to legally implement a DEI program
By Jon Hyman
The EEOC thinks it just filed a blockbuster anti-DEI lawsuit against The New York Times. What it actually filed is a pretty good roadmap for...
WIRTW #798: the 'gunner' edition
By Jon Hyman
I never expected to fall in love with English football in my 50s. Yet here we are. A couple of years ago, I started following Arsenal FC. Wh...
When employers gamble on bad facts, they usually lose
By Jon Hyman
How does a case like this ever get to trial? That was my first thought after reading Griffin v. Copper Cellar Corp . Rose Griffin worked as ...
The 11th Circuit just lowered the bar on racial harassment
By Jon Hyman
A noose. A blackface doll. Hung at a Black employee's desk. If you're thinking, "that's a textbook hostile work environment...
Is paid family and medical leave finally coming to Ohio?
By Jon Hyman
Ohio just took another swing at paid family and medical leave. This one might matter. On April 23, Senators Beth Liston (D) and Louis Blessi...
WIRTW #797: the 'compliment' edition
By Jon Hyman
What is the best professional compliment you can get? For me, it's this: "You don't sound like a lawyer." I hear this ofte...