Are businesses cracking down on bandwidth?
I cannot work in silence. I never could, and I likely never will be able to. In high school, I did all my homework with the stereo blaring i...
WIRTW #151 (the election recap edition)
By Jon Hyman
Here’s my 140-character recap of Tuesday’s election: Obama did not learn from Clinton’s 92 – 94 mistakes. Cost Dems huge. We’ll see if Boehn...
6th Circuit holds that an individual must be disabled to challenge a selection criteria under the ADA (but does it matter?)
By Jon Hyman
Employee use of prescription drugs has been in the news lately. Last week, the New York Times ran a piece discussing the drug testing of e...
Does your social networking policy violate federal labor laws?
By Jon Hyman
It was only a matter of time before the NLRB inserted itself into the intersection of social networking and employment relations. It has Twi...
Reading the tea leaves: Staub v. Proctor Hospital and the “Cat’s Paw”
By Jon Hyman
Before we get into the specifics of the Staub case, let’s first discuss the relationship between a cat’s appendage and employment discrimin...