WIRTW #81
This week’s top labor and employment story is undoubtedly President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. F...
A cautionary lesson in litigation management
By Jon Hyman
10 years ago, an Atlanta restaurant fired its highest ranking female manager. Last month, a federal jury finally dismissed her sexual harass...
The (im)morality of layoffs?
By Jon Hyman
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. -- Thomas Jefferson In the May 24 New York Times , ethicist R...
Do you know? When it is lawful to take deductions from an employee’s pay?
By Jon Hyman
For an employer to claim that an a professional, administrative, or executive employee is “exempt,” and therefore ineligible to receive over...
WIRTW #80
By Jon Hyman
This week’s most popular topic is the Supreme Court’s AT&T v. Hulteen [PDF] decision. That case held: “An employer does not necessaril...