Do politics and work mix? A poll.
Do politics and work mix? That is the question being asked at Copper Blue Restaurant. A half-dozen employees recently quit in protest after...
Topic: employment agreements/policies
Would you fire this employee?
By Jon Hyman
International law firm Winston & Strawn has withdrawn its job offer to an NYU law student who published and distributed inflammatory co...
6th Circuit opinion guts the validity of e-signatures on employment documents
By Jon Hyman
"I never saw that agreement and I never signed it." That's all that Andrew Bazemore said under oath in defense of Papa John...
“Loud quitting”
By Jon Hyman
Quiet quitting is so 2022. According to CNBC (citing Gallup’s 2023 State of the Global Workplace Report ) loud quitting is all the rage. ...
NLRB General Counsel goes nuclear on severance agreements in her guidance on McLaren Macomb
By Jon Hyman
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo just released her Guidance in Response to Inquiries about the McLaren Macomb Decision . Recall that...
NLRB bans non-disparagement and confidentiality covenants in severance agreements. What now?
By Jon Hyman
Is it time to rip up your stock severance agreement? Consider the following two clauses, which I bet your standard agreement contains in som...
I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired
By Jon Hyman
This is how it started. This is how it's ended (for now). In the intervening 48 hours, Elon Musk reportedly fired dozens of Twitter em...
Pretext for termination ≠ cause for termination
By Jon Hyman
Shortly after Elon Musk closed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, he cleaned out its C-suite. He fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Sega...
The Surgeon General correctly wants you to focus on employee mental health
By Jon Hyman
According to two recent surveys : 76% of U.S. workers report at least one symptom of a mental health condition. 84% of those reporting men...
HR may not be employees’ “friend,” but it’s also not their enemy
By Jon Hyman
As the former Microsoft VP of HR I can assure you that HR is not your friend. That headline from a BusinessInsider article written by Chris...
This is why I (almost) always recommend that employers provide terminated employees a reasonable severance package
By Jon Hyman
Roosevelt Jointer worked as a maintenance supervisor at Tesla from September 2017 until last month. That was when his manager called him ove...
Federal appeals court rejects reliability of electronic signatures on employment agreements
By Jon Hyman
During a webinar I recently conducted on employee handbooks, someone asked me a question about the best practice between wet signatures vs. ...
THIS is how you help a struggling employee
By Jon Hyman
Peter Gabriel sits on my personal Mount Rushmore of musical artists. He's also its longest resident, first etched during my high school ...
Your office might be open, but the bar should remain closed
By Jon Hyman
According to The Wall Street Journal , some businesses are using alcohol to entice their employees to return to the office. As businesses wo...
If you treat employees like they are fungible, they will act like they are fungible
By Jon Hyman
I spent the past few days at the Ohio Craft Brewers Conference promoting my new venture, OhioBeerLawyers.com . In addition to being one of t...
Work-life balance vs. Antiwork
By Jon Hyman
Compare the following. From CNN — "In Portugal, it's now illegal for your boss to call outside work hours." -vs- From the Ant...
Politics and work don’t mix: Southwest Airlines investigating pilot for “Let’s go Brandon” in-flight announcement
By Jon Hyman
Southwest Airlines is investigating one of its pilots for saying "Let's go Bradon" during an in-flight announcement. What is...
What Would Ted Do? #WWTD
By Jon Hyman
First, there was my Golden Rule of Employee Relations : Treat your employees as you would want to be treated (or as you would want your wif...
The Dos and Don’ts of firing an employee
By Jon Hyman
Firing people SUCKS . And anyone who tells you that they take pleasure from it shouldn’t be doing it. It’s the absolute worst part of an...
Celebrating “World Kindness Day” at work #WorldKindnessDay #ChooseKindness
By Jon Hyman
Today is World Kindness Day . Introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, it highlights good deeds in the community by focusing on ...