"It's an abomination to God. Rainbow is not meant to be displayed as a sign for sexual gender." That's what Daniel Snyder ...

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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of appearing on the Decision Vision podcast. The topic of discussion: "Should I allow my company t...

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Almost two months to the day that workers at the College Ave. Starbucks location in Ithaca, New York, voted to unionize, the coffee conglome...

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All of the following allegedly happened during the mere five weeks that Hannah Navarro worked at a Pratville, Alabama, Chipotle restaurant. ...

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Elon Musk. The name itself evokes a visceral reaction. Electric car visionary. Astronaut wannabe. Opponent of remote work . Potential Twitte...

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Outdoor music season is beginning here in Northeast Ohio, which means that my daughter has a bunch of shows booked for the summer … starting...

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"You've taken serious amounts of FMLA … don't take any more FMLA. If you do so, you will be disciplined." That's what ...

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Workers who recently organized a Peoria, Illinois, Starbucks walked off the job on a recent Saturday in protest of alleged unfair labor prac...

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On Jan. 7, Great Lakes Coffee Roasting in Detroit temporarily closed following a Covid outbreak that sidelined nine employees. It never reop...

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Everyone please wish my smart, compassionate, talented, beautiful, kick-ass daughter a happy 16th birthday!!! Here's what I read this pa...

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Unions aren't just having a moment, they are having their best moment in at least 50 years. What has caused the "perfect ...

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"Nothing you share will be attributed to you and your feedback will remain anonymous." That's what an HR consultant advised em...

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"Black lives" matter causes segregation. Have you ever hear[d] of "white lives" matter or "[J]ewish" lives m...

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On June 6, 2019, unionized employees of Vox Media , a left-leaning digital media company, walked off the job during union contract negotiati...

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If you're located in Northeast Ohio and don't have our upcoming Wickens Workshop on your calendar, why not? I, along with two of my...

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When I challenge the continued viability of labor unions and the lack of benefits they offer to or confer upon 21st century employees, this ...

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The "Great Replacement" is a conspiracy theory that certain leftist political forces are bringing non-whites into the United State...

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"Meet H&N's newest assistant brewer," the Instagram post began. How nice, a brewery advertising its female-friendly work e...

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"I'm here to listen." It's an innocuous enough statement for management to make to employees. What could possibly go wrong...

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How do you support your female employees amid times of great uncertainty about the continued viability of their reproductive rights and body...

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Let's see if you can spot the employment law issue from this story, which I've borrowed from our local police blotter . On April 26,...

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A video made the rounds yesterday on Twitter of a mass of Best Buy employees foiling a shoplifting attempt with a stellar zone defense. Thi...

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Friedrich Nietzsche once said , "It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge...

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Corrective action rules A dress code A prohibition on cell phone use while working A social media policy Confidentiality rules These are a f...

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Earlier this week our country officially passed 1 million Covid-19 deaths . According to the World Health Organization, Covid's full dea...

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Yesterday I shared about the moment labor unions are currently having, with representation petitions surging 57% over the past six months, a...

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Union representation petitions are surging.  According to the National Labor Relations Board , they have increased a whopping 57% over the p...

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The year was 1989. It was the summer between my junior and senior years in high school. I worked as a busboy in the dining room of an assist...

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Brenda Garcia led union efforts at Chipotle as one of its employees. Or, rather, she was one of its employees until last week, when the res...

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I've probably written more about labor organizing over the past six months than in the prior six years (or longer) combined. It's a ...

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Midland Brewing Company hired Ryan Boshaw to work as a server. Over the span of nine months, it promoted him three times, to an hourly manag...

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Over the past decade, labor unions win between 65 and 70 percent of representation elections. Given organized labor's recent more high-p...

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Hard Eight BBQ says it misunderstood its obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act by paying managers a share of tips earned by servers...

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Workplaces, state and local governments, and the CDC have relegated mask mandates to the dustbin of Covid history. But just because people a...

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Ask anyone from Philadelphia (including me) about the city's best cheesesteak, and the names you will not hear mentioned are Pat's  ...

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According to The Wall Street Journal , some businesses are using alcohol to entice their employees to return to the office. As businesses wo...

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Ronald Burns, a maintenance technician at Berry Global, was the victim of three instances of racial harassment over the span of 17 days. Bur...

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Kevin Berling, a 10-month employee of Gravity Diagnostics, made a simple request of the manager of his office —"Please don't throw ...

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How do I know that labor unions are making raging comeback? Historically, my posts on unions, union organizing, and union avoidance would st...

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Beginning July 6, 2022, Ohio employers have a new set of rules under which to pay their employees.  SB 47 revamps Ohio's wage and hour ...

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"Due to the 6.8% inflation rate, all US workers are entitled to at least a 6.8% pay adjustment. We have received reports of some ABUSIV...

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One of the tactics workers used to successfully organize Amazon's Staten Island fulfillment center was the use of "salts." ...

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“Jon, why are you anti-union?” I’ve received this question a lot lately. Between all of my posts about the need for all employers (including...

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Do you know? Non-plastic straws, such as those made of paper or plant material, can include wheat as a binder? Norah discovered this fact af...

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How often have you looked at you bill at a restaurant and have seen an added service fee? Do you think to yourself, "No need to tip; it...

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I tell my students, "When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if...

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Tomorrow at 5 pm I'm participating in an online panel discussing fair compensation in the craft beer industry. It's part of the Craf...

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Last Friday, workers won the first-ever union election at an Amazon warehouse (a fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York). This is the...

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To wrap things up this week, I thought I'd update two stories. 1/ UCLA Unpaid Job Posting In addition to taking down the offensive job p...

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Less than one and one-half miles away from the flagship Starbucks that launched a global coffee empire five decades ago, employees unanimous...

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Yesterday I explained   why your company needs a code of conduct separate from or adjunct to your already-existing anti-harassment policy. ...

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Meet Brienne Allan , a brewer at Notch Brewing in Salem, Mass. In May 2021 she asked a simple question in an Instagram Story — "What se...

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I woke up Saturday morning to a tweet asking me for my take on this job posting . I'm going to say this one time, really loudly, for th...

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Over the years I've shared a lot of videos of my daughter performing. At the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At Ohio Bike Week. At the Bes...

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No matter how many times you read our federal workplace anti-discrimination laws, you won't find the word "caregiver" among th...

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