The Worst Employer of 2025 is… 🥁
After a year of collecting 12 nominees and then letting you all decide from the final seven via ranked-choice voting, we didn't even nee...
Five things to consider in a difficult termination
By Jon Hyman
Today is your final day to VOTE for the Worst Employer of 2025 One of my recurring professional nightmares is advising a client on a termin...
WIRTW #783: the 'Christmas movies' edition
By Jon Hyman
What are the best Christmas movies of all time? It's a debate as old as Christmas movies themselves. (And yes, this is absolutely the ki...
What does a font have to do with an employer's values? Apparently, a lot.
By Jon Hyman
The State Department just ordered diplomats to ditch Calibri and return to Times New Roman as the required typeface in all official communi...
🚨 Vote for the Worst Employer of 2025 🚨
By Jon Hyman
It's the most wonderful time of the year! I've made my list, checked it twice, and now it's time to determine who's been the...
Jury tags SHRM for $11.5 million in discrimination lawsuit
By Jon Hyman
$11.5 million! That's the number a jury needed to send a very loud, very clear message to the Society for Human Resource Management — th...
WIRTW #782: the 'lights' edition
By Jon Hyman
I've always loved Christmas lights. Maybe it’s because, growing up Jewish, we never decked out our house each December with strings of t...
Independent contractors and noncompete agreements do not mix
By Jon Hyman
I've always believed that noncompetes and "independent contractor" status don't mix. Now I have an appellate opinion to ba...
The most puzzling HR litigation strategy you’ll read this week
By Jon Hyman
Every so often a litigation strategy comes along that just makes you stare at the screen, shake your head, and think, "Did a lawyer rea...
The 12th nominee for The Worst Employer of 2025 is … The Corpse Killer
By Jon Hyman
Some stories hit you like a punch to the gut. This one is a full-on knockout. The House Ways and Means Committee just dropped a bombshell on...
If you aim to hit the legal floor, your workplace will always miss the mark
By Jon Hyman
If your defense to a harassment complaint starts with "well, technically…" you've already lost — even if you win the lawsuit. ...
Civil-rights enforcement isn't a culture-war trophy
By Jon Hyman
The Wall Street Journal just profiled EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas under the headline "Trump's DEI Slayer Is Just Getting Started....
WIRTW #781: the 'EEOC' edition
By Jon Hyman
"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is expected to rescind guidance that addresses harassment based on gender identity. Should...
What are you doing to protect your company's trade secrets and keep them secret?
By Jon Hyman
Sherbrooke, a captive insurer for nursing homes, built proprietary software to price risk and underwrite policies. Three insiders—including ...
If you think women ruined the workplace, the problem isn’t women — it’s you
By Jon Hyman
The New York Times recently asked , "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" After an online firestorm erupted, it quietly changed the head...
Leadership always starts at the top
By Jon Hyman
"Quiet, Piggy." That's what Donald Trump said to a female reporter over the weekend aboard Air Force One in response to a qu...
WIRTW #780: the 'breakup' edition
By Jon Hyman
"You deserve someone who loves you for who you are, not who they want you to be." That's the heart of this week's episode ...
When you protest too much, we all think you're hiding something
By Jon Hyman
If you're fighting this hard to hide a file, everyone already knows what's in it. Donald Trump trying to stop the release of the Eps...
Target's new "smile" policy has some serious legal problems
By Jon Hyman
You can't policy your way to happy employees. But Target sure is trying. The retailer just rolled out its new "10-4" policy. E...
A Veterans Day primer on USERRA
By Jon Hyman
Every November 11, we pause to honor the men and women who've worn our nation's uniform. But beyond parades, flags, and "thank ...