You might be a defendant if … you ask applicants for a family medical history
According to this press release , a New York nursing and rehabilitation center will pay $370,000 to settle a genetic discrimination lawsuit ...
Cursing as religious harassment—context matters
By Jon Hyman
With The year was 1985. I was 12 years and spent the summer at overnight camp. When you spend 8 weeks alone in the woods with a dozen other ...
WIRTW #303 (the “toilet humor” edition)
By Jon Hyman
True story. I just learned of a company (not a client) that maintains two sets of bathrooms—one for its “office” employees and one for its “...
Blackballing as retaliation
By Jon Hyman
Do you remember Diana Wang, the unpaid intern who sued Hearst Corporation , claiming that the publisher violated that Fair Labor Standard Ac...
Tread lightly if banning workplace gossip, says NLRB Judge
By Jon Hyman
I recently came across a blog post that answered the question of how to deal with workplace gossip . One solution you might want to avoid is...