By Jon Hyman
Fertility is a very touchy subject. Most people assume that it is easy for a couple that wants to get pregnant to get pregnant. Unless you e...
By Jon Hyman
Ohioans to Protect Jobs and Fair Benefits, a coalition of businesses, organizations, and others that oppose the Healthy Families Act, has f...
By Jon Hyman
Brady v. Wal-Mart Stores (2nd Cir. 7/2/08) asks whether an employer can ignore an employee's obvious disability when making employment...
By Jon Hyman
Even though new dads have the same FMLA rights as new moms, technically I'm not on FMLA leave. I'll be in and out of the office over...
By Jon Hyman
Starting Monday, my posting may become more sporadic than I'd like, as my wife is going into the hospital to have our second child. I...
By Jon Hyman
No company does more to avoid unions than Walmart. Case in point - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NLRB 6/20/08) . In the summer of 2000, Walmart'...
By Jon Hyman
Fontella Harper and Beverly Kaisk were neighbors in a public housing project. Apparently, Kaisk had problems living next door to an African ...
By Jon Hyman
Doe v. Salvation Army , decided last week by the 6th Circuit, provides employers with a valuable lesson on the dangers of asking the wrong q...
By Jon Hyman
Disparate treatment claims under Title VII are categorized as either single-motive claims (where only an illegitimate reason motivated the e...
By Jon Hyman
In the largest verdict Ohio history, and what might be the largest single-plaintiff employment verdict ever, a Cuyahoga County jury has awar...
By Jon Hyman
I'm here a day early with this week's best from the blogosphere, starting with 2 posts from the New York Times' Shifting Careers...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, a Minnesota judge ruled that Wal-Mart violated state wage and hour laws by failing to provide meal and rest periods to more than...
By Jon Hyman
Did you know that if you are covered by the FMLA and have an employee handbook, the FMLA's regulations require that handbook to contain ...
By Jon Hyman
Every once in a while I'll answer a question that comes from my readers. Sometimes a question comes by email. Other times (to break down...
By Jon Hyman
By a margin of 402-17, the House yesterday voted in favor of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. The New York Times is reporting that the Senat...
By Jon Hyman
Federal Express terminated the employment of Deborah Thornton after she failed to return to work from a 16-month leave of absence taken beca...
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this week I wrote about whether employees are entitled to overtime pay for reading emails . Michael Moore (the author of the Pennsyl...
By Jon Hyman
Let's suppose an employee opts-in to a class action lawsuit against your company. Let's also suppose after she opts-in to the class ...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama gave some insight into employment policy in his administration. RealClearPolitics has his words from a spe...
By Jon Hyman
More than a year ago I asked the question, " Is time spent outside the office e-mailing from a Blackberry compensable under the Fair L...