Your religion isn’t a license to discriminate (but we may need to accommodate you anyway)
Pronouns confuse me. It's not that I want to misgender anyone. In fact, quite to the contrary, I try really hard to get people's pro...
WIRTW #654: the “gifts” edition
By Jon Hyman
What's the best holiday gift you've ever given or received? With the holidays quickly approaching, this is the question Norah and I ...
Reasonable accommodations are for actual disabilities, not unhinged conspiracies
By Jon Hyman
If I've learned one thing from my 25+ years of practicing law it's that when a court describes your arguments as a "rambling an...
Today is your LAST chance to vote for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
By Jon Hyman
If you haven't yet cast your ballot for The Worst Employer of 2022, time is quickly running out. Polls close at the end of today. In c...
B-i-t-c-h spells dismissal
By Jon Hyman
We're a team, we need to work together. Maybe we need to have a department meeting where we workshop with each other and really get to k...
A tale of two employee nondisclosure agreements
By Jon Hyman
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." This is perhaps the most famous opening line in the history of literature,...
WIRTW #653: the “playlist” edition
By Jon Hyman
Last Friday, after sharing the Old 97's new holiday classic from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special , I asked LinkedIn for th...
Musings on dead dogs and terminated managers
By Jon Hyman
We are no longer taking ANY EXCUSE for calling off. If you're sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring...
What should you do when the DOL shows up at your door?
By Jon Hyman
"I'm an investigator with the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. I'm here to conduct an investigation into how ...
Pay attention to the industries the Department of Labor is targeting
By Jon Hyman
Take a look at the following headlines, each taken from a Department of Labor news release from just the past month. US Department of Labor...
Bank properly terminates misbehaving employee despite FMLA leave, 6th Circuit holds
By Jon Hyman
In 2017, a series of personal adversities, including probation for an incident with a gun and an ex-girlfriend, cocaine use, and a DUI arres...
WIRTW #652: the “caroling” edition
By Jon Hyman
I love a good Christmas song. The problem is that too many of them are just not very good. Today, I'm adding one to your holiday music p...
VOTE for the Worst Employer of 2022
By Jon Hyman
It's the most wonderful time of the year. I've made my list. I've checked it twice. Now it's time to find out who's naug...
Paper plant settles case of egregious racial harassment with EEOC for $385,000
By Jon Hyman
Packaging Corporation of America has agreed to pay the EEOC $385,000 to settle the racial harassment claims of two African American employe...
Is God anti-union?
By Jon Hyman
Thomas Ross, a security officer employed by Allied Universal in San Francisco, has filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC against Serv...
There’s nothing wrong about wanting not to have fun at work
By Jon Hyman
A French employee, fired for refusing to participate in after-work drinks and other "team building" activities, has won the legal ...
WIRTW #651: the “thankful” edition
By Jon Hyman
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday, I thought I'd take a moment to say a few thank-yous, as I have a lot for which to be thankful....
I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired
By Jon Hyman
This is how it started. This is how it's ended (for now). In the intervening 48 hours, Elon Musk reportedly fired dozens of Twitter em...
The 14th (and final) nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the slumlord supervisor
By Jon Hyman
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude , except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall e...
EEOC Commissioner targets companies offering employees abortion travel benefits
By Jon Hyman
In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that ended federal constitutional pro...