“Striketober” highlights union organizing concerns for Ohio craft breweries
One of the unexpected byproducts of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is a corresponding rise in union organizing and other union-related activi...
Netflix’s termination of the organizer of a trans employee walkout very well might be legal
By Jon Hyman
Late Friday, The Verge reported that Netflix fired one of the leaders of an internal trans employee resource group who was organizing an em...
UPDATE: HIPAA (mis)information and the Covid vaccine
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this week I wrote about a national payroll provider that shared some very incorrect information about an employer’s HIPAA responsib...
WIRTW #600: the “Here, there, and every … where” edition
By Jon Hyman
This week I rejoined my good friends Marc Alifanz and Kate Bischoff on the Hostile Work Environment podcast to discuss the Season 2 finale...
Coronavirus Update 10-14-2021: We still don’t know what OSHA’s vaccine standard says … but we’re getting closer
By Jon Hyman
Late Tuesday, news broke that OSHA had submitted in vaccine mandate Emergency Temporary Standard to the White House’s Office of Informatio...
Coronavirus Update 10-13-2021: Unfortunately I need to keep clarifying misconceptions about HIPAA
By Jon Hyman
I came across the following information on the website of a prominent national payroll provider: Q: In what ways can/should HR departments ...
Coronavirus Update 10-12-21: A prior Covid infection is not a defense to an employer’s vaccine mandate
By Jon Hyman
"I don't need the vaccine; I've already had Covid and have superior natural immunity " is a popular refrain from some peop...
Coronavirus Update 10-11-21: World Mental Health Day
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday was World Mental Health Day. It was also day 579 of the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 has altered all of our lives; all employees a...
WIRTW #599: the “34” edition
By Jon Hyman
Ask any litigant who has had the (dis)pleasure of being a party to civil litigation in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas for their o...
Coronavirus Update 10-7-21: EEOC brings its first pandemic-related lawsuit over a denied WFH accommodation
By Jon Hyman
The fact that an employer temporarily excused performance of one or more essential functions when it closed the workplace and enabled employ...
Employment law lessons from “Ted Lasso” — Let’s talk about medical confidentiality
By Jon Hyman
The penultimate episode of Season 2 of Ted Lasso ended with an absolute gut-punch of a cliffhanger. ( Spoiler Alert — Turn Back Now If You...
Coronavirus Update 10-5-21: Would you rather? Get fired? Or get the Covid-19 vaccine?
By Jon Hyman
Last week I asked a simple question on LinkedIn : If your employer is mandating the Covid vaccine, would you rather get fired or get the sh...
Whistleblowing and self-help discovery: lessons from Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower
By Jon Hyman
"Can she do that?" That was the question my wife asked me as we watched last night's interview of Frances Haugen, the Facebook...
WIRTW #598: the “Would you rather?” edition
By Jon Hyman
As workplace vaccine mandates continue to dominate the headlines, employees continue to threaten to quit their jobs if forced to get jabbed ...
Coronavirus Update 9-29-21: We need to talk about the rise in anti-Semitism and Nazi symbolism
By Jon Hyman
"You're being a Nazi by mandating masks and vaccines." "'Papers, please.' I refuse as a condition of entering a s...
Coronavirus Update 9-28-21: White House issues Covid vaccine mandate guidance for federal contractors and subcontractors
By Jon Hyman
If your business is a federal contractor or subcontractor, you have until December 8 to ensure that your employees are fully vaccinated aga...
Coronavirus Update 9-27-21: Repeat after me. “A vaccine mandate is not coercive.”
By Jon Hyman
Today's post is for anyone who believes that a workplace vaccine mandate is coercive or deprives employees of their free choice not to g...
WIRTW #597: the “Sorry Antivaxxer” edition
By Jon Hyman
If you've visited me on LinkedIn or Twitter (and if we're not connected on both, please fix that immediately), you may have notice...
Coronavirus Update 9-23-21: If you’re tired of reading what I have to say about workplace vaccine mandates, now you can listen to what I have to say
By Jon Hyman
A huge thank you to the producing team at WCPN 's The Sound of Ideas and host Rick Jackson for inviting me on to yesterday's progr...
Coronavirus Update 9-21-21: Covid-19 has now killed as many Americans as the Spanish flu
By Jon Hyman
Covid-19 just passed a grim, sad, and preventable milestone. It has killed as many Americans, 675,000, as the last pandemic we suffered, the...