Remote work as a reasonable accommodation
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Topic: Covid-19
The most metal employment law update ever!
By Jon Hyman
Two of the most famous bands in the history of heavy metal are each facing lawsuits from former tour workers. The family of a Kiss guitar t...
If you bet on which of your employees will get Covid, you probably shouldn’t qualify for a bonus
By Jon Hyman
In late 2020, Tyson Foods fired seven of its pork processing plant managers after they were caught betting on which of their employees woul...
Are we really still talking about masks?
By Jon Hyman
In-N-Out burgers are mid. Its employment practices are even worse. The restaurant chain is prohibiting employees in five states from weari...
“Geographical discrimination” is NOT a thing
By Jon Hyman
"If you don’t relocate and return to in-person work, we’re going to have to let you go." Many employers are having this very conve...
EEOC issues its final updates to its Covid-19 guidance
By Jon Hyman
With the Covid-19 National and Public Health Emergencies now concluded, the EEOC just published what should be its final updates to its COVI...
6th Circuit confirms that private employers can do private employer things
By Jon Hyman
Four employees of the J.M. Smucker Company sought religious exemptions from the company's Covid vaccine mandate. When the company refus...
Reasonable accommodations are for actual disabilities, not unhinged conspiracies
By Jon Hyman
If I've learned one thing from my 25+ years of practicing law it's that when a court describes your arguments as a "rambling an...
Muckenfuss makes a mask fuss
By Jon Hyman
Michael Muckenfuss worked in maintenance at a Tyson Fresh Meats facility. When the Covid-19 pandemic began, the town's mayor instituted ...
The CDC is the tail wagging the public’s dog
By Jon Hyman
Last week the CDC updated its Covid isolation guidelines . The agency says it's "to help the public better protect themselves and ...
Court dismisses employees’ race discrimination claims against Whole Foods based on prohibition of BLM masks
By Jon Hyman
A group of Black and non-Black Whole Foods employees claimed that their employer unlawfully discriminated against them because of their race...
Mask mandates might be gone, but maskual harassment isn’t
By Jon Hyman
Workplaces, state and local governments, and the CDC have relegated mask mandates to the dustbin of Covid history. But just because people a...
Brewery CEO out after backlash to controversial vaccine comments
By Jon Hyman
Vaccine mandates are a crime against humanity. If you are not speaking out against them, you are a conspirator. Those are the words Josh St...
I’m not quite ready to declare the pandemic over, but I am ready to stop writing about it every single day
By Jon Hyman
Nearly two years ago, I re-branded the Ohio Employer Law Blog as the Coronavirus Law Blog . It was a bit of marketing combined with the rea...
Coronavirus Update 2-28-22: CDC eliminates mask guidance for 70% of Americans
By Jon Hyman
The CDC has issued new mask guidance based on the level of Covid-19 in a specific county. In counties with a low level of Covid ( green )...
This dissenting opinion in the United Airlines vaccine-mandate case is 58 pages of pure judicial rage
By Jon Hyman
It's been a little over three months since a federal district court in Forth Worth, Texas, denied a preliminary injunction to a group o...
Coronavirus Update 2-1-22: I just gave my kids the worst business trip souvenir ever
By Jon Hyman
In the before times, when I actually traveled for business, I'd always try to come home with a souvenir for the kids. A t-shirt, a stuff...
Coronavirus Update 1-31-22: Employees should not be choosing between their jobs and working while ill
By Jon Hyman
I return to the office today after a one-week Covid-inducted work-from-home hiatus. I'm fortunate that as a professional I have the abil...
Coronavirus Update 1-27-22: Whole Foods 1 – Maskhole 0 😷
By Jon Hyman
You have every right to believe that masks are a form of government control or a satanic tool. You're very wrong, but you are free to be...
Coronavirus Update 1-26-22: OSHA doesn’t need an ETS to go after your business’s Covid-safety deficiencies
By Jon Hyman
With the Supreme Court effectively killing OSHA Covid-19 vax-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard, and OSHA now officially withdrawing it,...