Court holds wage and hour laws don’t protect oral complaints
Imagine an employee walks into your HR office and complains that the company has misclassified her as exempt and that she is owed overtime. ...
Employees’ web-based email may be off-limits to employers
By Jon Hyman
It is generally understood by employees and employers that employer-provided email systems belong to the the employer, and that employees do...
Ricci v. DeStefano: Supreme Court rules on discriminatory Hobson’s choice
By Jon Hyman
Perhaps no decision has been more eagerly anticipated this year by employment lawyers than the Supreme Court’s opinion in Ricci v. DeStefano...
No wonder fighting sexual harassment is an uphill battle
By Jon Hyman
How are employers supposed to fight workplace harassment when employees are bombarded by images like this, an actual ad for Burger King’s ne...
WIRTW #85
By Jon Hyman
Last week, Bozeman, Mont., began requiring all job applicants to provide a list of all “current personal or business websites, web pages, or...