Governor seeks compromise to keep Healthy Families Act off the November ballot
Governor Strickland has spoken out against the Ohio Healthy Families Act as bad for Ohio businesses, but he is not necessarily opposed to to...
WIRTW #41
By Jon Hyman
Another week, another week of excellent employment law posts from around the country for everyone to peruse. The Delaware Employment Law B...
The federal minimum wage rises, but does anyone in Ohio care?
By Jon Hyman
Today, the federal minimum wage increases to $6.55 an hour. This should be bigger news than it is, but in Ohio this increase will have almos...
Don't estop yourself into coverage
By Jon Hyman
Lots of statutes have thresholds that must be met for coverage. For example, the FMLA only applies to employees with at least 1 year of tenu...
EEOC issues new guidance on religious discrimination
By Jon Hyman
This week, the EEOC issued three new publications on religious discrimination: a new chapter in its Compliance Manual , a Q&A, and Best...
Illustrating the dangers of the Healthy Families Act to Ohio
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, a commenter left the following on my earlier post, Deconstructing the Ohio Healthy Families Act : What effect will this have...
Some employees should just sail off into the sunset
By Jon Hyman
Every once in a while, you come across a case that, when you read it, makes you wonder why the employee would ever even consider filing a la...
WIRTW #40
By Jon Hyman
Actually, I'm not reading much this week, but I have pegged a few articles that might be of interest to everyone. First, congratulatio...
Employee fired for taking time off to undergo in vitro fertilization allowed to proceed with sex discrimination claim
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...
Ohioans to Protect Jobs and Fair Benefits vows to fight against Healthy Families Act
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...
Duty to reasonably accommodate obvious disabilities
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...
Dads get FMLA leave too
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...
WIRTW #39
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...
A lesson in union avoidance
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'...
Ohio Supreme Court takes a stand against liability for bullying (sort of)
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 ...
Medical questions during job interview doom employer in discrimination case
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...
6th Circuit decides standard of proof for mixed motive cases
By Jon Hyman
Disparate treatment claims under Title VII are categorized as either single-motive claims (where only an illegitimate reason motivated the e...
46.6 million reasons to think about settlement
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...
What I'm reading this week #38
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...
More on compensation for meal periods
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...