By Jon Hyman
One of the more confounding sets of rules under the FFCRA is when employers can require employees to substitute an employer’s own provided...
By Jon Hyman
How are you filling your non-working time? We used to fill our time running our kids all over the place for various lessons, rehearsals, a...
By Jon Hyman
Last night, the Center for Disease Control issued new guidelines for when an essential employer should permit a critical infrastructure e...
By Jon Hyman
Bloomberg Law asks whether employers are “responsible for paying workers for the time it takes to record their body temperatures before e...
By Jon Hyman
Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) have sent a scathing letter to Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia c...
By Jon Hyman
OSHA, the federal agency responsible for health and safety, has been all over the coronavirus pandemic, providing a wealth of resources f...
By Jon Hyman
If you thought the DOL was done publishing FAQs on the paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave provisions of the Families Fi...
By Jon Hyman
The past two weeks have seen a record 10 million new unemployment claims . This number does not even include many of the millions more who...
By Jon Hyman
My family has been self-quarantined for the past three weeks. We did so before Ohio ordered people to stay at home, and before anyone star...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday afternoon, the Department of Labor published its long-awaited (as in, for the past two weeks) regulations to the paid family leave...
By Jon Hyman
The Department of Labor's FFCRA regulations are out. And they are significant. If you thought you understood this Act, you don't...
By Jon Hyman
One of the questions I have received the most since the passage of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act is how employers claim the...
By Jon Hyman
One employer is an anomaly, two is a trend that must be stopped. Last week, I nominated for the Worst Employer of 2020 an unnamed natio...
By Jon Hyman
A quick reminder that I’ll be live on Zoom today from 1 - 2 pm ET discussing all things Coronavirus, including the DOL’s most recent addit...
By Jon Hyman
Late yesterday, the DOL published a second round of FAQs (numbers 15-37) answering more questions on the operation of paid family and sic...
By Jon Hyman
After a week of self-imposed quarantine in my home, and a week of mandatory sheltering in place by the State, now is as good a time as any...
By Jon Hyman
The speed at which the coronavirus news cycle moves is dizzying. Is it possible that the DOL’s FFCRA Employee Rights Poster is correct as ...
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday I held my first Zoominar. (Is this an actual word, or did I just make it up?) I opened up my Zoom room for the first 100 people to...
By Jon Hyman
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act has an effective no later than 15 days after President Trump signed it. He signed in late in the...
By Jon Hyman
Can we just close the poll now and announce today’s nominee the winner? If anyone can verify the identity of this employer I’d love to kno...