The more you know… Determining when a company knows that an employee engaged in protected activity
“The check is in the mail” is one of the world’s oldest (and some would argue lamest) excuses. In Hicks v. SSP America (6th Cir. 8/3/12) , ...
Courts inch closer to recognizing sexual orientation as a protected class
By Jon Hyman
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company fired Plaintiff Jason Koren after he missed work for his father’s funeral. Koren suspected that Ohio Bell re...
WIRTW #238 (the “Doc Hopper” edition)
By Jon Hyman
What does a labor and employment lawyer do to relax on the weekends? If it’s this labor and employment lawyer, and it happens to be the sec...
Piercing the bulletproof employee
By Jon Hyman
Retaliation comes in two flavors: participation and opposition. The former protects employees who have “made a charge, testified, assisted, ...
The language of the modern workplace
By Jon Hyman
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary just released its list of new words for 2012 . Three caught my eye. According to the pu...