By Jon Hyman
To a nation waiting for action, let me be clearest on this point: Help is on the way. Those were the words of President Biden in announcing...
By Jon Hyman
Pregnancy discrimination has been illegal for at least 43 years. You'd think employers would know better. You'd also lose a lot of b...
By Jon Hyman
Late last week, President Biden signaled that part of his overall plan to provide economic relief for American families and businesses amid ...
By Jon Hyman
Among the litany of executive orders President Biden issued in his first two days in office was one on Preventing and Combating Discriminat...
By Jon Hyman
One of the great benefits of this blog is the opportunities it has opened for me to network with others. One of the great benefits of that n...
By Jon Hyman
Today is a wonderful day. 28 years ago, January 20, 1993, I was on the National Mall experiencing the inauguration of Bill Clinton. One of m...
By Jon Hyman
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the identification of the first COVID-19 case in the United States. On January 20, 2020, the State o...
By Jon Hyman
As you should hopefully be aware, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the federal law that provided paid leave to employees...
By Jon Hyman
This week I'll be examining what employers can expect from Joe Biden's presidency. Today, a $15 minimum wage. Late last week Preside...
By Jon Hyman
When I close out this contest at the end of each year I ask myself, "Jon, will you be able to find sufficiently awful nominees for the ...
By Jon Hyman
For lack of more artful description, Ohio's employment discrimination law was a mess. It exposed employers to claims for up to six years...
By Jon Hyman
Software company GitHub is taking a lot of heat for firing a Jewish employee for referring to the people who stormed the Capitol on January ...
By Jon Hyman
While we've all been mentally overcome by the rebellion that unfolded at the Capitol and the civil war that I fear it started, Covid-19 ...
By Jon Hyman
Systemic discrimination has multiple meanings, according to the EEOC: A "pattern or practice, policy, and/or class cases where the disc...
By Jon Hyman
Imagine you discover that Elizabeth from Knoxville is one of your employees. Elizabeth wasn’t ready for the revolution to be televised😂 pic...
By Jon Hyman
I’m not okay with what happened yesterday. I’m angry, I’m sad, and I’m scared for the future of our country and our democracy. A seditious ...
By Jon Hyman
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By Jon Hyman
We all felt for Clark Griswold when, instead of his expected year-end bonus, he received a one-year membership to the Jelly of the Month Clu...
By Jon Hyman
With the COVID-19 pandemic closing health-care-provider offices or severely limiting patient access, many have turned to telehealth to remot...
By Jon Hyman
In what has become an annual tradition for my final post of the year, I bring you the holiday classic, ’Twas the Employment Law Night Before...
By Jon Hyman
Late yesterday, Congress approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, better known as its $900 billion COVID-19 rescue stimulus. Pres...
By Jon Hyman
It brings me tremendous joy to announce the Worst Employer(s) of 2020.
By Jon Hyman
British newspaper The Sun published leaked audio capturing Tom Cruise angrily addressing two crew members who he believed had breached Covi...
By Jon Hyman
In his semi-eponymous movie, Buddy the Elf famously explained , "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear...
By Jon Hyman
One issue the EEOC omitted from its technical guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine is the issue of race discrimination. According to one recen...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the EEOC published its guidance on the COVID-19 vaccine under the ADA and GINA, in the form of nine Q & As. You can read them...
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...
By Jon Hyman
According to Cleveland.com , a pair of Ohio parents are facing possible criminal charges after piling 60 maskless teenagers into a party bus...
By Jon Hyman
Marc Alifanz and Kate Bischoff are two of my favorite people. They also happen to host one of my favorite podcasts, Hostile Work Environme...
By Jon Hyman
One of the great tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic is the number of Americans who are without enough food to eat. It is estimated that near...
By Jon Hyman
2017: The Cancerous Boss (employer fires employee after his cancer diagnosis because she doesn't " need people with cancer workin...
By Jon Hyman
"I wish I could see your pretty lips if they match ur eyes." "Come on, sweetie. Lemme see that pretty face under there. Take ...
By Jon Hyman
Everyone has been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Service industry employees, however, have been hit particularly hard. Many are out ...
By Jon Hyman
We are days away from the FDA approving two different COVID-19 vaccines, and it is being reported that the first people could start receivi...
By Jon Hyman
I didn't write today's post. My healthcare worker sister-in-law did. Hopefully she doesn't mind that I'm sharing what she po...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the CDC amended its guidance on the duration of quarantine for individuals in close contact with someone else positive with COV...
By Jon Hyman
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the federal law that provides paid sick and family leave to employees for COVID-19-related abse...
By Jon Hyman
It's officially election season for the Worst Employer of 2020 . Since it is 2020, however, this can't be a normal Worst Employer ...
By Jon Hyman
2020 has certainly been a year like no other. People are sick and dying. Hospitals are filling up. Our essential workers are stressed and ti...
By Jon Hyman
Do you remember that scene from The Deer Hunter where Christopher Walken plays Russian roulette in a betting parlor, while the patrons plac...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday afternoon, Cuyahoga County, Ohio's largest, issued a four-week stay-at-home advisory . It took effect immediately, and is in a...
By Jon Hyman
For last night's dinner, I decided to use the leftover meatballs from the prior night's spaghetti dinner to make meatball subs. The ...
By Jon Hyman
MaryJo Delaney is suing her former employer after it demoted her from her management position following her return from a Covid-related layo...
By Jon Hyman
Today's nominee for the Worst Employer of 2020 is beyond description. NBC Bay Area provides the details: A Gilroy couple has been charg...
By Jon Hyman
During his most recent scolding of Ohio's citizens, Governor DeWine threatened to close restaurants and bars if the state's Covid nu...
By Jon Hyman
During yesterday evening's statewide address , and amid dangerously rising COVID-19 infections and hospitalization, Governor Mike DeWine...
By Jon Hyman
You are literally making Covid worse if you are refusing to permit employees to work from home. According to a recently published CDC study ...
By Jon Hyman
November third 2020 Sitting anxiously on my bedroom floor I've got other things to worry about Like how I did on my test today But rathe...
By Jon Hyman
Can you "point" an employee under a no-fault attendance policy for a coronavirus-related absence? For example, an employee sick wi...
By Jon Hyman
The NFL has fined the Las Vegas Raiders $500,000 and stripped them of a 2021 draft pick for " brazen and repeated violations" of...
By Jon Hyman
Are you tired of the endless din of vote counts and election news? Let's get back to the uplifting topic of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemi...
By Jon Hyman
As I type at 6:30 am on the morning after, we still don't know who won the presidency. There are 9 states and 87 electoral votes undecid...
By Jon Hyman
There is no doubt that life is stressful right now. Between the exponentially and dangerously rising COVID-19 numbers (and the unwillingness...
By Jon Hyman
As we round the corner to month eight of "living with COVID-19," I thought now is a good time to ask everyone, "How are you d...
By Jon Hyman
Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. In the 8th inning of their clinching game 6, the Dodgers pulled third baseman J...
By Jon Hyman
SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management, describes itself as "the foremost expert, convener, and thought leader on issues impa...
By Jon Hyman
Election Day is in seven days. By all predictions, this election will see a record number of voters. As long as Election Day remains a worki...
By Jon Hyman
The results are. Thank you to the 244 of you took the time to answer my question: Would you boycott a business based on the candidate whom ...
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this week, I posed what I thought was a simple question on the private Facebook page of my community's homeowners' associati...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the CDC made a key update to its COVID-19 guidance. It made a significant change to the definition of "close contact."...
By Jon Hyman
Over the weekend I got into an interesting discussion on Twitter with a couple of my favorite musicians, Brendon Benson and Caitlin Rose . ...