Your hourly employee's second job is probably none of your business
You can't refuse to pay for someone's time and simultaneously insist that you own it. A group of more than 26,000 Costco employees a...
Topic: employment policies
A beast of a harassment lawsuit
By Jon Hyman
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as YouTube's biggest star, MrBeast , is calling this lawsuit "clout-chasing," a grab for headli...
Target's new "smile" policy has some serious legal problems
By Jon Hyman
You can't policy your way to happy employees. But Target sure is trying. The retailer just rolled out its new "10-4" policy. E...
Corporate ethics start at the top
By Jon Hyman
Kohl’s just gave its CEO the boot for violating the company’s code of ethics. Why? Because he funneled business to a vendor run by someone h...
Baning salary discussion bans
By Jon Hyman
🛑 Employers, for the love of all that is holy, STOP BANNING EMPLOYEES FROM DISCUSSING THEIR WAGES!!! 🛑 A supervisor of subsidiary of Duke...
Ohio voters decide to pass the kutchie on the left hand side
By Jon Hyman
By a margin of 57% to 43%, voters legalized recreational marijuana. As a result, recreational cannabis will become legal in the Buckeye Stat...
NLRB resets the rules on employee handbooks … yet again
By Jon Hyman
Yes, we need to talk about employee handbooks and the NLRB … again. Yesterday, the Board decided Stericycle, Inc. , and announced its 5th (...
“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...
What are the risks with the use of AI at work?
By Jon Hyman
AI is shiny. AI is new. AI is sexy. And AI is problematic and not entirely understood. It is for those last reasons that, according to HR Br...
Your business should have an employee conflict of interest policy
By Jon Hyman
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under fire after the public disclosure of decades of valuable gifts he's received from right-wi...
What does an AI-written employee handbook look like?
By Jon Hyman
Last week, I spoke at our sold out Wickens Workshop. The topic — employee handbooks. As is the case whenever I speak on that topic, I was su...
Seminars and Webinars: Employee Handbooks
By Jon Hyman
When was the last time you reviewed and updated your business's employee handbook? If your answer is, "I don’t know," "L...
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...
The NLRB is coming for your handbook (again)
By Jon Hyman
Corrective action rules A dress code A prohibition on cell phone use while working A social media policy Confidentiality rules These are a f...
The nuts and bolts of your company code of conduct
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday I explained why your company needs a code of conduct separate from or adjunct to your already-existing anti-harassment policy. ...
Does your craft brewery or other company have a code of conduct?
By Jon Hyman
Meet Brienne Allan , a brewer at Notch Brewing in Salem, Mass. In May 2021 she asked a simple question in an Instagram Story — "What se...
Vacation (all I ever wanted) — 7 tips to encourage your employees to use their paid time off
By Jon Hyman
"AITA for turning my work phone off on vacation?" That's the question that someone recently posted on the eponymous subreddit...
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...
Coronavirus Update 8-17-2021: Are your work-from-home employees working more one job from home?
By Jon Hyman
This headline in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs . A small, dedica...
My one work rule to rule them all
By Jon Hyman
George Carlin was a genius. He just had a way of breaking down language into its most simple parts. Whether it was The 7 Dirty Words or The...