By Jon Hyman
Late Tuesday, news broke that OSHA had submitted in vaccine mandate Emergency Temporary Standard to the White House’s Office of Informatio...
By Jon Hyman
I came across the following information on the website of a prominent national payroll provider: Q: In what ways can/should HR departments ...
By Jon Hyman
"I don't need the vaccine; I've already had Covid and have superior natural immunity " is a popular refrain from some peop...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day. It was also day 579 of the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 has altered all of our lives; all employees a...
By Jon Hyman
Ask any litigant who has had the (dis)pleasure of being a party to civil litigation in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas for their o...
By Jon Hyman
The fact that an employer temporarily excused performance of one or more essential functions when it closed the workplace and enabled employ...
By Jon Hyman
The penultimate episode of Season 2 of Ted Lasso ended with an absolute gut-punch of a cliffhanger. ( Spoiler Alert — Turn Back Now If You...
By Jon Hyman
Last week I asked a simple question on LinkedIn : If your employer is mandating the Covid vaccine, would you rather get fired or get the sh...
By Jon Hyman
"Can she do that?" That was the question my wife asked me as we watched last night's interview of Frances Haugen, the Facebook...
By Jon Hyman
As workplace vaccine mandates continue to dominate the headlines, employees continue to threaten to quit their jobs if forced to get jabbed ...
By Jon Hyman
"You're being a Nazi by mandating masks and vaccines." "'Papers, please.' I refuse as a condition of entering a s...
By Jon Hyman
If your business is a federal contractor or subcontractor, you have until December 8 to ensure that your employees are fully vaccinated aga...
By Jon Hyman
Today's post is for anyone who believes that a workplace vaccine mandate is coercive or deprives employees of their free choice not to g...
By Jon Hyman
If you've visited me on LinkedIn or Twitter (and if we're not connected on both, please fix that immediately), you may have notice...
By Jon Hyman
A huge thank you to the producing team at WCPN 's The Sound of Ideas and host Rick Jackson for inviting me on to yesterday's progr...
By Jon Hyman
Covid-19 just passed a grim, sad, and preventable milestone. It has killed as many Americans, 675,000, as the last pandemic we suffered, the...
By Jon Hyman
As the debate over religious exemptions to workplace Covid vaccine mandates, one hospital has taken a unique approach to verify the sincerit...
By Jon Hyman
It was a busy week in the Hyman house last week, with middle school soccer games and rock 'n' roll gigs all over town for my kids. I...
By Jon Hyman
With President Biden's announcement of his plan to vaccinate all employees of employers with 100 or more employees, the nation is keenl...
By Jon Hyman
If you've not yet watched episode 8 (Man City) of the current second season of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso and you don't want to be s...
By Jon Hyman
President Biden has directed OSHA to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) mandating that all employers with 100 or more employees ma...
By Jon Hyman
For all the negative effects that the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought, it has imparted some very positive changes to the American workplace. F...
By Jon Hyman
CNN is reporting that President Biden will announce an executive order directing the Department of Labor to draft an emergency rule requiri...
By Jon Hyman
If you pass any restaurant these days you'll almost certainly see a sign like this one: "Now hiring: $________ sign-on bonus....
By Jon Hyman
Last week I reported on a trial court case out of Butler County, Ohio, in which a common pleas judge granted the wife of a hospitalized Cov...
By Jon Hyman
If you're watching Ted Lasso, you're familiar with the story of Nathan Shelley, kit man turned coach turned Wonder Kid. Season 2 tel...
By Jon Hyman
If you're in Northeast Ohio, let me suggest four ways for you to spend your time over the next couple of weeks — all involving my daught...
By Jon Hyman
If I know one thing, and only one thing, as a man (okay, two things) it's these: NEVER joke about a woman's weight and never ask a w...
By Jon Hyman
Activision Blizzard was my 11th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2021 . Among the alleged sins that earned its nomination — a key software ...
By Jon Hyman
Ivermectin is a high potency medication used to prevent or treat parasites in livestock. It's FDA-approved for limited use in humans, su...
By Jon Hyman
DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB As the mandates are increasing and the “deadlines” fast approach, YOU SHOULD NOT QUIT YOUR JOB. Do not be fooled if you...
By Jon Hyman
17 years and 363 days ago, I married the love of my life. In two days, we'll celebrate our 18th anniversary. The number 18 is significan...
By Jon Hyman
Delta Air Lines has decided to try a different approach to get as many of its employees vaccinated as possible. It's imposing a $200 cha...
By Jon Hyman
An update on Monday's post , about a Toledo-area brewery that got canceled over a tweet by Senate candidate John Mandel congratulating ...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the FDA granted full and final approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Calling the agency's approval "a pivota...
By Jon Hyman
PERRYSBURG, OH — @InsideTheFive is a cool brewery started by two NFL vets. Great food and spirited waitresses! Even though Brianne was sick...
By Jon Hyman
Covid has taken a lot from us. One of the things it robbed from this space is its weekly "What I'm Reading This Week" ("W...
By Jon Hyman
Meet Peggy Hall. She runs a website called The Healthy American . What is The Healthy American? For starters, it's a website that NewsG...
By Jon Hyman
Today my kids go back to school. 10th grade for Norah and 7th grade for Donovan. I am so thankful that their school is requiring universal m...
By Jon Hyman
This headline in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs . A small, dedica...
By Jon Hyman
With more employers mandating vaccines for their employees, and businesses, cities, and schools doing the same for customers and other non-e...
By Jon Hyman
First, there was my Golden Rule of Employee Relations : Treat your employees as you would want to be treated (or as you would want your wif...
By Jon Hyman
A few weeks ago I opined that the ADA likely covers Covid long-haul symptoms as protected disabilities that employers must accommodate. In ...
By Jon Hyman
How are you? Delta is spiking Covid infection rates to their highest levels since last winter. Hospitals are again facing a crisis of space....
By Jon Hyman
"I need an accommodation for your mandatory vaccination policy. The vaccine is against my religion." As more employers roll out va...
By Jon Hyman
CNN — which is requiring all in-person employees to be fully vaccinated — has fired three employees for going into the office unvaccinated. ...
By Jon Hyman
If you're my age, when you hear the name Activision you think of games like Kaboom!, Pitfall!, and the Atari 2600. If you're younger...
By Jon Hyman
You've read my posts from earlier this week, listened to the newly self-appointed quarterback of Team Vaccine Mandate, and decided to re...
By Jon Hyman
The news on mandated Covid vaccinations is coming fast and furious, from courts, governments, and private businesses.
By Jon Hyman
Since there was so much confusion that resulted from the last time the CDC updated its mask guidance for the fully vaccinated, I thought it...
By Jon Hyman
As short as a few weeks ago, I'd have told you that the choice to get vaccinated is a personal one, and that employers that mandated the...
By Jon Hyman
I'm not proud of this but i just made a scene in public for the first time in my life… I walked into a Starbucks and they asked me to p...
By Jon Hyman
The risks associated with Covid-19 aren't limited to the 625,000 Americans this virus has killed or the 2.3 million hospitalizations. On...
By Jon Hyman
Children nationwide are getting ready to go back to the school for the 2021 – 22 school year, the third school year students and their paren...
By Jon Hyman
Netflix has fired three marketing executives for criticizing their co-workers over Slack. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "the ex...
By Jon Hyman
Late last week, a federal jury tagged Walmart with a verdict totaling more than $125 million in a disability discrimination lawsuit the EEOC...
By Jon Hyman
Ohio currently requires that students receive each of the following vaccines (subject to medical or religious exceptions) as a condition of...
By Jon Hyman
Here's how the president of Fusion Japanese Steakhouse describes the manner in which his company (unlawfully) pays its kitchen staff: I ...
By Jon Hyman
Kimberly Grinage was born male but identifies as a transgender woman. That fact presented a huge problem for her during her employment at an...