Today is my 11th anniversary. I love my wife. That is all. Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Gee Whiz! Sexual Har...

Employers with employees working in safety-sensitive positions have an obligation to ensure that their employees are not impaired while enga...

Yesterday, WCPN’s The Sound of Ideas was kind enough to invite me to speak about criminal background checks in employment and the “Ban the ...

In Triple Play Sports Bar & Grille [pdf] , the NLRB unanimously concluded that an employer unlawfully fired two employees for their off...

If you’re near a radio tomorrow morning from 9 – 10, tune to 90.3 FM, WCPN, to hear me on The Sound of Ideas . The topic of the day is “Ban...

A few months ago, I had to fly to Houston for a hearing. After the flight took off, I witnessed the most impressive bit of alcohol consumpti...

Big week of firsts for the Hyman family. First week at a new job for me . First week of third grade for Norah. And, it was the first day of ...

When is a disability not a disability? When an employer fires a difficult employee based on his inability to get along with his co-workers, ...

What happens when a decision-maker acts with an innocent motive, but unwittingly carries out the retaliatory motive of a subordinate? Does t...

In Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market (8/11/14) [pdf] , the NLRB held that an employee engaged in protected concerted activity merely by ...

And to make an end is to make a beginning. ― T.S. Eliot According to my blogging service, this is my 2,000th post. While this milestone ...

There are lots of snippets of Robin Williams I could play. I chose this one . I'll see everyone Monday with some huge news.   Here’s th...

Often when we consider the issue of temporal proximity in a retaliation case , we examine it from the standpoint of whether temporal proximi...

With technology making work-from-home more and more feasible, it is easier and easier for employees to work while "out" on an FMLA...

In Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market (7/31/14) [pdf] , the NLRB examined the following “Confidentiality and Information Security” policy...

One of the very first things a lawyer learns in law school is the “mailbox rule.” This rule simply states that if a letter “properly direct...

According to a recent report jointly published by the Pew Research Center and the Imagining the Internet Center , almost half (48%) of techn...

Every so often, I write a post that rankles some feathers. Yesterday’s was one such post. Recall that yesterday I discussed a case in which...

In Cadenas v. Butterfield Health Care II, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 7/15/14) , a federal court asked the question of whether an employer could termin...

LinkedIn will pay nearly $6 million in back pay and liquidated damages to 359 current and former employees following a Department of Labor i...