The 8th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Passport Pilferer
An agricultural labor contractor recruited five Guatemalan farmworkers under the H-2A visa program, charged them an illegal $2,500 annual fe...
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The 7th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Fatal Failure
By Jon Hyman
Some stories don't need a legal analysis. They need an indictment of management. This indictment places the City of Las Vegas as a nomin...
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...
The 5th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Caucasian Chooser
By Jon Hyman
Dimerco Express USA didn't hide it. They didn't bury it in coded language. They didn't even pretend it was anything else. They w...
The 4th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Disability Turkey
By Jon Hyman
A longtime employee tells her employer she has breast cancer. She needs time off—intermittent leave—to undergo chemotherapy and recover. The...
The 3rd nominee for the Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Dead Baby
By Jon Hyman
Some cases hit harder than others. This is one of them. A Hamilton County, Ohio, jury just tagged Total Quality Logistics with a $22.5 milli...
The 2nd nominee for The Worst Employer of 2026 is … The (Not) Joking CEO
By Jon Hyman
At a company keynote in Las Vegas, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited the international employees to stand. He then joked that ICE agents w...
The 1st nominee for The Worst Employer of 2026 is … The Harassing, Retaliating, Evidence-Erasing Employer.
By Jon Hyman
If you're looking for the blueprint for how to turn a workplace into a legal catastrophe and land on my Worst Employer list, look no fur...
'Twas the Employment Law Night Before Christmas (2025 edition)
By Jon Hyman
In what has become an annual tradition for my final post of the year, I present the holiday classic, 'Twas the Employment Law Night Befo...
The Worst Employer of 2025 is… 🥁
By Jon Hyman
After a year of collecting 12 nominees and then letting you all decide from the final seven via ranked-choice voting, we didn't even nee...
Five things to consider in a difficult termination
By Jon Hyman
Today is your final day to VOTE for the Worst Employer of 2025 One of my recurring professional nightmares is advising a client on a termin...
WIRTW #783: the 'Christmas movies' edition
By Jon Hyman
What are the best Christmas movies of all time? It's a debate as old as Christmas movies themselves. (And yes, this is absolutely the ki...
🚨 Vote for the Worst Employer of 2025 🚨
By Jon Hyman
It's the most wonderful time of the year! I've made my list, checked it twice, and now it's time to determine who's been the...
The 12th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Corpse Killer
By Jon Hyman
Some stories hit you like a punch to the gut. This one is a full-on knockout. The House Ways and Means Committee just dropped a bombshell on...
The 11th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Enslaving Episcopate
By Jon Hyman
Every year I think I've hit rock bottom when it comes to my "Worst Employer" list. And every year, someone picks up a jackhamm...
The 10th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Corpse-Concealing Taskmaster
By Jon Hyman
On Sunday, September 21, 43-year-old UPS driver Shelma Reyna Guerrero was crushed to death inside a cargo trailer at a company facility. Ac...
The 9th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Malignant Museum
By Jon Hyman
De'Mario Grant thought he'd landed his dream job in security at the de Young Museum, following his grandfather's footsteps. Inst...
The 8th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Gender Corroborator
By Jon Hyman
Policies on paper don't protect people. Training does. And this Buffalo Wild Wings location failed… spectacularly. In April, 18-year-old...
The 7th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Sadistic Chef
By Jon Hyman
A jury just awarded $3.15 million to 22-year-old Andrew DeBellis—a sous chef who, over a brutal 2.5-month stretch, was punched, slapped, ki...
The 6th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Terrible Trafficker
By Jon Hyman
HotHead Grabba is now officially in the hot seat. A 74-count indictment charges owner Hunter Segree and two managers with operating a tobac...