By Jon Hyman
Nearly 50,000 Americans lost their lives to opioid-related overdoses in 2016. Compare that figure to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which recorde...
By Jon Hyman
A Michigan oral surgery practice has agreed to pay $47,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC . The agency alleged ...
By Jon Hyman
It has been nearly four years since the NLRB filed complaints against McDonald’s, seeking to hold it liable as a joint employer for the u...
By Jon Hyman
ERISA section 510 provides: It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Have you ever thought about what the Patron Saint of Ireland can teach...
By Jon Hyman
Bloomberg reports that demand for anti-harassment training videos has surged in the #MeToo era. Here’s the problem, however. The Bloo...
By Jon Hyman
Last night, my hot water tank died. It was old (14, to be exact). During his shower, I heard Donovan yell, “Dad, there’s no hot water, a...
By Jon Hyman
By ABC TV [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I am not a tattoo person. Yet, a whole lot of people are. And the numbers are increas...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash For almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been preaching the proactive benefits of...
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For the past 496 Fridays (plus a few off here and there) I have shared my list of what I read this week. Implicit in each share is my ...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash Yesterday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals joined a growing number of federal appellate cour...
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Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash In what may be the greatest (or, depending on your perspective, worst) employee mistake of all time, the...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by N. on Unsplash I once knew of company (not a client) at which its CEO would sit in his office all day and watch a bank of moni...
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In my opinion, the original British version of The Office is far superior to its American counterpart, in large part because David Brent is...
By Jon Hyman
Troll: “One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption ...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash In my never-ending quest to show you how many different ways you can screw up paying your employees u...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Cameron Kirby on Unsplash If you are a small business owner, pay attention. Today’s update on the issue of joint employment w...
By Jon Hyman
Photo by Matias Rengel on Unsplash Yesterday, the 2nd Circuit federal court of appeals (which covers New York, Connecticut, and Vermont...
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Consider this scenario. Employer and Employee have a good-faith dispute over whether Employer owes Employee for unpaid overtime for time...
By Jon Hyman
I am not a gun person. If you want to dismiss what I am about to say because of my dislike of guns, that is your prerogative. Just skip do...
By Jon Hyman
I’m writing today’s post from the comfort of the kitchen island in my house. My son has the flu, and I’m working from home. It’s been ...
By Jon Hyman
The confidentiality of harassment allegations has been a hot topic of debate in the #MeToo and #TimesUp era. Consider, then, each of t...
By Jon Hyman
‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Ber...
By Jon Hyman
It is lawful for an employer to fire an employee who complains that his workplace is too diverse ? According to the NLRB, the answer, ...
By Jon Hyman
Today, I am pleased to announce that Meyers Roman has expanded our employment-law capabilities by adding Douglas B. Brown, LLC (DBB), a bo...
By Jon Hyman
“What is Bitcoin? I don’t understand how fake money works.” These were the words of my 9-year-old last week. Let me try to help him, a...
By Jon Hyman
Raef Lawson worked as a restaurant delivery driver for Grubhub for four months in late 2015 and early 2016. He claimed that the company mi...
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I listened with great interest to the latest episode of the Hostile Work Environment podcast , which featured as its guest my good friend,...
By Jon Hyman
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about religion. Or, rather, what it means to be religious. I am not religious. Or at least not in the o...
By Jon Hyman
Today’s goal: Strive to be the type of employer that engenders this type of loyalty in your employees. Here’s what I read this week: ...
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Dear Jon, I resigned from my last job amid allegations of sexually inappropriate misconduct. The allegations became public. Even tho...
By Jon Hyman
The policy-making body of the American Bar Association has adopted a formal resolution that urges legal employers to prohibit, prevent, an...
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The 4th nominee for the worst employer of 2018 is the Humane Society of the United States, which last month voted to retain its CEO despit...
By Jon Hyman
Last night, my Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Today, the FMLA turns 25. Over the past 25 years, it is estimated that employee...
By Jon Hyman
As a dad of a woman (girl) who may someday live in the music industry, I read with great interest the comments of Recording Academy Preside...
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United Airlines has blocked a customer from bringing her “emotional support peacock” on a recent flight. Truth be told, whether it was a...
By Jon Hyman
Every now and again it’s worth pulling a post out of the archives for a rerun. Today, I look all the way back to April 15, 2008, for on...
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It’s a situation that plays out all too often. An employee emails a slew of documents to a personal email address, or drags them into a pe...
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How do you discuss sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct with your friends and colleagues? Saturday Night Live, in one of its most...
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Last Friday, Fake ID played to a packed house at The Symposium, an old school rock club in Lakewood, Ohio. And, they absolutely brought dow...
By Jon Hyman
Wile E. Coyote. Forever chasing the Roadrunner. Always ending up falling off a cliff or crushed under a giant boulder. Noncompete litigati...
By Jon Hyman
I’m typing today’s post from my bed, where I convalesce with the flu. Since I’m at home with the flu, I thought it worthwhile to discuss t...
By Jon Hyman
Image by Sven via Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month, Walmart announced sweeping additions to how it compensates its employees.
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The third nominee for the Worst Employer of 2018 might be the creepiest I’ve shared yet. From the Tampa Bay Times (c/o the ABA Journal...
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Mental illness, especially among our youth, is an issue about which we do not pay nearly enough attention (to wit: this week’s suicide of ...
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Can an employee, terminated for refusing to submit to a “reasonable suspicion” drug test, sue the employer for discrimination? According...
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I am declaring today New Year’s Day 2.0. To put it bluntly, the first 16 days of 2018 sucked. I need a do over. This has been my 2018 ...
By Jon Hyman
Are you tired of seeing your Facebook feed littered with the results of your friends’ quizzes, with titles such as, “Which Game of Thrones...
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A date appropriate reminder that our nation works better when our leaders seek to unite rather than divide. We should strive to tak...
By Jon Hyman
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a family rock ‘n’ roll update, so here it goes. If you’re in the Cleveland area, you have three chances...
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about death. These past few days have been the first time I’ve had to deal with it on a family level as ...
By Jon Hyman
There are lots of correct ways to respond to employee complaints. Handcuffing and arresting the employee is most definitely NOT one of...
By Jon Hyman
We are incredibly sad today, as my mother-in-law passed away. Norah told me that her head was swimming and that she couldn’t process ...
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Amber Bridges, the former Lead Staff in the City of Indianapolis Magistrate Court, claims that her efforts to ease employees’ complaints a...
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When one of your biggest stars loses his high-profile job in one the year’s biggest sexual harassment scandals, how to you react? With a...
By Jon Hyman
The inaugural nominee for the Worst Employer of 2018 is a doozy. I bring you ( courtesy of the New York Post ) the holy harasser.
By Jon Hyman
For the past five Noels, I’ve concluded my posting year with “The 12 Days of Employment Law Christmas.” As this has become a year-end tradit...
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The day has finally arrived. It’s time to announce the Worst Employer of 2017. To remind you, we had three finalists in contention for t...
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So much of the news lately has focused on sexual harassment, that it’s easy for one to forget that other types of harassment also exist. ...
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Last week, the NLRB started making good on its promise to roll back some of its more controversial Obama-era reforms—its assault on employ...
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As you’ll see below, sexual harassment has become such a big story that it’s (sadly) earned it’s own headlining category in my weekly recap...
By Jon Hyman
If you are a federal contractor or subcontractor, the letters O-F-C-C-P hold real meaning for you. They stand for Office of Federal Contr...
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If you have not yet voted for the Worst Employer of 2017 , your time is running very short. The polls close at 11 pm today. Who is your ...
By Jon Hyman
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting, along with four other “top employment law bloggers” (at least according to Corporate Counsel ),...
By Jon Hyman
Last week, Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked if the #MeToo movement is ruining the office holiday party. “Is the #MeToo movement becom...
By Jon Hyman
One of my absolute favorite things to do is taking Norah to concerts. Wednesday, I’m taking her to a punk show. SWMRS / The Interrupt...
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Have you cast your vote yet for the Worst Employer of 2017 ? Whether your answer is “Yes,” “Not yet”, or “What are you talking about,” I...
By Jon Hyman
Have you started thinking about your New Year’s resolutions for 2018? The NLRB’s newly minted general counsel, Peter Robb , has, and emp...
By Jon Hyman
Much of the news lately has focused on how we, as employers, can do a better job training and otherwise educating our employees about workpl...