WIRTW #313 (the “March madness” edition)
Yesterday , I shared my thoughts on the NLRB’s historic (yet preliminary) ruling on scholarship student athletes as employees. I argued that...
The wage-and-hour implications of the NLRB’s Northwestern football player ruling
By Jon Hyman
By now you’ve likely heard that yesterday a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern University’s sc...
"Motorboating" = $567K harassment verdict
By Jon Hyman
A Galveston, Texas, jury has awarded $567,000 in damages to a former deputy constable who claimed sexual harassment by his former boss. The...
Please, please, please … be careful what you email
By Jon Hyman
Darren Wyss claims that his former employer, Compact Industries, demoted him on the basis of his gender and replaced him with a female. Wyss...
It's still illegal not to hire someone because they have HIV
By Jon Hyman
Twenty years ago, Tom Hanks won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Andrew Beckett, a man with AIDS fired by his law firm because of h...