Is infertility fertile grounds for disability discrimination claims?
I’ve written before about employers getting themselves in trouble for pregnancy discrimination for firing employees while undergoing fertili...
WIRTW #300 (the “300th” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Like a Spartan soldier raging into battle against the army of the Persian King Xerxes, I have ripped through 300 of these end-of-week compi...
A Festivus for the rest of us (at work)
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, Evil Skippy at Work answered a reader’s question about whether an employer can prevent its employees from celebrating Festivus i...
Is social media a valid vehicle for harassment complaints?
By Jon Hyman
A nuclear-medicine technician posted the following three items on her Facebook wall: (At 9:00 am) Sara DeBord loves it when my boss adds a...
If you’re taking an employee’s deposition, don’t charge them for a day off work
By Jon Hyman
Today’s blog post is a multiple-choice quiz. An employee takes a day off work to attend his own deposition, which you are taking in defense...