By Jon Hyman
"Your respectful workplace training is against my religion; count me out." That's what one employee told his employer when it ...
By Jon Hyman
I will officially have a college student in a little over four months. The "if" was never in doubt, but there "where" de...
By Jon Hyman
"The only thing that changed from when I left for maternity leave to when I was terminated was the fact that I had a baby. It sent a cl...
By Jon Hyman
"Employer and Employee agree to keep the existence and terms of this Agreement confidential and to not disclose its provisions to anyon...
By Jon Hyman
On April 8, Cleveland will be in the path of totality for a solar eclipse. One hasn't happened here since 1806; the next one won't b...
By Jon Hyman
If your company just agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging horrific workplace sexual abuse and other sexual harassment, mayb...
By Jon Hyman
"Jon, tell us about your law firm and your legal practice." "I'm so glad you asked, Lorain County Business Insights Podca...
By Jon Hyman
If today's dysfunctionally fractured Congress can agree on anything on a bipartisan basis, it must be a good idea. Raise your glass to ...
By Jon Hyman
National Raisin has agreed to pay $2 million to settle an EEOC sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit that the agency filed on behalf of...
By Jon Hyman
"You can't force me to sit through DEI training! I'm White. It creates a racially hostile work environment." That's wh...
By Jon Hyman
Boston Beer Co., the brewer of Sam Adams and other craft beverages, is taking heat for its overuse of noncompete agreements. In a recent art...
By Jon Hyman
If you have a child applying for college this year, you know the pain that we are currently feeling. This year, Congress decided to change t...
By Jon Hyman
The Fair Labor Standard Act is not a good law because employers have zero hope in complying with it. I know this fact is true because I just...
By Jon Hyman
Pro tip: it's really, REALLY bad to destroy evidence in your case. Case in point: Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group , which the 9th Circui...
By Jon Hyman
If you want to learn about a government's priorities, trace the money. President Biden's proposed federal budget for FY 2025 contai...
By Jon Hyman
My home, and this Friday space, have been consumed by music for the past few weeks. The 27th and final Tri-C High School Rock Off has come ...
By Jon Hyman
I ❤️ being a lawyer. It presents something new and different each day, with each day offering an opportunity to learn. For example, yesterda...
By Jon Hyman
"DEI" is not a 4-letter word … no matter what some people want you to believe. Companies such as Sherwin-Williams are scrapping th...
By Jon Hyman
Tomorrow night, I'll be at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame trying not to be a nervous wreck during the finals of the Tri-C High School ...
By Jon Hyman
It's really unfortunate that when Congress, in 1938, enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act it chose the label "administrative" ...
By Jon Hyman
With in vitro fertilization all over the news for the past week, it's time for this important public service announcement — IVF discrimi...
By Jon Hyman
One, two, three, four There's a plague on the planet And they went to law school A bunch of hornswogglers Treat us like fools Know who I...
By Jon Hyman
Employers, hear to me now and believe me later — it is unacceptable to force a lactating employee to pump her breast milk in an open stockro...
By Jon Hyman
Fair State Brewing, one the nation's first unionized craft breweries, just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile and els...
By Jon Hyman
I left y'all with quite the cliffhanger last Friday. How would Norah do in her semifinal round at the Tri-C High School Rock Off ? ...
By Jon Hyman
🛑 Employers, for the love of all that is holy, STOP BANNING EMPLOYEES FROM DISCUSSING THEIR WAGES!!! 🛑 A supervisor of subsidiary of Duke...
By Jon Hyman
A former UCLA employee has sued the university, claiming that if fired him in retaliation for requesting to continue to work from home after...
By Jon Hyman
During the recent Super Bowl halftime show, Usher took off his shirt and everyone oohed and aahed over his performance. Twenty years ago, Ja...
By Jon Hyman
"Ageism is really one of the last acceptable 'isms' that society tolerates," says AARP senior advisor Heather Tinsley-Fix....
By Jon Hyman
I believe that it's important to celebrate our victories, not just in our careers, but also in our personal lives. Tomorrow night, my da...
By Jon Hyman
A McDonald's franchisee has agreed to pay $4.35 million to settle claims brought by a 14-year-old worker raped by a manager. According t...
By Jon Hyman
It's a DEI heavyweight battle of epic proportions that played out of X over the past week. In the blue corner, hailing from Big D, the o...
By Jon Hyman
Live Nation and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced that this year's Rock Off will be the final Rock Off, at least sponsored by L...
By Jon Hyman
“Do you have female parts?” “You’re not a real man.” “If I just say ‘she’, that’s what she is.” Those are among the allegations that the EEO...
By Jon Hyman
I've never before had a repeat Worst Employer nominee. But never before has there been an employer like Vince McMahon. Two years ago, I ...
By Jon Hyman
Did you know that in addition to being an employment lawyer and a craft-beer lawyer, I’m also a podcaster? A couple of years ago my daughter...
By Jon Hyman
If you google “brewery harassment” you’ll polish off an entire six-pack before you finish reading all of the horror stories. 🤮 “Breweries...
By Jon Hyman
“This is very basic, elementary communication. This has nothing to do with training or understanding, this is daily required functioning.” T...
By Jon Hyman
A teenage, female restaurant employee bends over to pick something up and a male co-worker snaps a photo of her buttocks and then shares it ...
By Jon Hyman
I don't just go to beer conferences to drink beer. I promise. I also go to speak and share my knowledge about the legal issues that impa...
By Jon Hyman
"Illegal immigrant co-worker got fired for asking about her check." That's the headline on Reddit . Here's the rest of th...
By Jon Hyman
My daughter, Norah, has been chosen as one of 30 acts to compete in the 2024 Tri-C High School Rock Off at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame....
By Jon Hyman
I've seen a lot of strange stuff in my 26-plus-year career as an attorney for employers. But this story takes the cake … and it might ju...
By Jon Hyman
Between Sept. 2021 and Oct. 2022, Lyle Bigelow, the now-former COO of 1487 Brewery, embezzled approximately $200,000 from his employer. How?...
By Jon Hyman
"You can't be pro-employee and anti-union." "If you're pro-employee you should also be pro-union." Each of these...
By Jon Hyman
For the past 26 years, Live Nation Entertained has crowned "The Best Band in the Land" at the Tri-C High School Rock Off . This ye...
By Jon Hyman
Competitive salary. Excellent benefits. Great support from management. Collaborative environment. Those are a few of the glowing terms revie...
By Jon Hyman
Consider the following two policies, which restaurants and bars have implemented to save a few nickels against their tight margins: “Effec...
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 B...
By Jon Hyman
The votes have been counted. The WINNER of The Worst Employer of 2023 is... 🏆 The Child Labor Abuser 🏆
By Jon Hyman
Last week, Corky & Lenny's, a deli that has been a local institution for the past 67 years, closed its doors . The owners cited staf...
By Jon Hyman
Morgan Mesi, a transgender man, has just sued his former employer, Tenzing Wine & Spirits, along with his labor union and group health ...
By Jon Hyman
One of my primary business development goals for 2023 was for Wickens Herzer Panza to join a law firm network. Mission accomplished! WHP is...
By Jon Hyman
An employer terminates a group of 14 employees within six weeks after learning that they were discussing unionizing. Despite the timing of t...
By Jon Hyman
It's not every day that John Oliver happens to feature one of your Worst Employer nominees the very same week that you open the polls t...