Delay in reporting harassment dooms employee's claim
Federal Express terminated the employment of Deborah Thornton after she failed to return to work from a 16-month leave of absence taken beca...
Is the FLSA anachronistic?
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this week I wrote about whether employees are entitled to overtime pay for reading emails . Michael Moore (the author of the Pennsyl...
Protected activity does not protect theft of confidential information
By Jon Hyman
Let's suppose an employee opts-in to a class action lawsuit against your company. Let's also suppose after she opts-in to the class ...
What would President Obama look like to employers?
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama gave some insight into employment policy in his administration. RealClearPolitics has his words from a spe...
Overtime pay for reading emails
By Jon Hyman
More than a year ago I asked the question, " Is time spent outside the office e-mailing from a Blackberry compensable under the Fair L...