"I'm finishing all my CLE credits this week. It amazes me how if you keep up with law changes regularly how out-of-date these CLEs ...

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Within hours of the Supreme Court releasing its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization  and reversing Roe v. Wad e, DICK...

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Roosevelt Jointer worked as a maintenance supervisor at Tesla from September 2017 until last month. That was when his manager called him ove...

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I'm weird. I travel to my office for work every day possible. Not my "home office," but my actual office, inside my law firm, ...

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The EEOC has sued Hobby Lobby, accusing the arts-and-crafts retailer of refusing to reasonably accommodate a cashier by declining her the us...

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I've written before about BrewDog ( here and here ), the multinational Scottish craft brewery accused by hundreds of former employees  o...

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I believe that everyone's relationship with God (whether you call that deity God, Yahweh, Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, something else, ...

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From the Supreme Court's opinion  terminating the constitutional right to abortion  … to other Supreme Court opinions allowing and endor...

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A group of Black and non-Black Whole Foods employees claimed that their employer unlawfully discriminated against them because of their race...

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Is it legal to fire an employee who has an abortion? This is question that a lot of employers and employees will now be asking in light of t...

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During a webinar I recently conducted on employee handbooks, someone asked me a question about the best practice between wet signatures vs. ...

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Within hours of the Supreme Court announcing its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , Lauren Horbart, the President an...

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Job interview: "Are you planning on having kids? Do kids feature in your five-year plan? Because we want someone in this role for a min...

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Peter Gabriel sits on my personal Mount Rushmore of musical artists. He's also its longest resident, first etched during my high school ...

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"LET ME SALUTE TO HITLER THE GREAT. He said 'i would have killed all the jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why i...

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Workers at the Towson, Maryland, Apple Store made history by becoming the first such store to vote to unionize . It wasn't close, with 6...

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Over the years ( for now former ) WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon has been accused of some awful treatment of employees. For starters, wr...

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I love sharing clips of my daughter playing music. It's made for such a cool catalogue of her growth as an artist over the years. So, he...

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"It is with a deep sadness and a heavy heart I share one of our students, Riley Whitelaw, passed away over the weekend. Currently, we a...

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"Just know that if you unionize, when you are negotiating your benefits, you could gain, you could lose, or you could stay the same....

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Yesterday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a new law that will lower the training hours school personnel to be armed from about 700 hours t...

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"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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