NLRB finally gives some real-world guidance on social media as protected, concerted activity
In the NLRB's final act before the long Labor Day weekend, an Administrative Law Judge in Buffalo, NY, issued his decision in Hispanics ...
Pregnancy as disability discrimination: New ADA vs. Old ADA
By Jon Hyman
A year ago, the 6th Circuit concluded that pregnancy-related impairments that are not part of a “normal” pregnancy—such as miscarriage susc...
Happy Labor Day
By Jon Hyman
Like most, I’m off today. The Department of Labor, though, never sleeps. It has an entire micro-site that celebrates today’s holiday: h...
WIRTW #191 (the “Come on Irene” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Bad puns aside, last weekend was not a good one for the Northeast. Other than an extended power outage, Irene’s worst spared my family in su...
Can a handbook policy bind an employee to arbitration? 6th Circuit says no.
By Jon Hyman
We spend a lot of time debating the respective merits of fine point of the law. The reality, however, is that judges are people too. Despite...