Don’t fire employees on the heels of a cancer diagnosis
You can’t escape the fact that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month . Pink is everywhere. Women are wearing pink everything. Buildings a...
For want of a well-placed pickle: will your termination pass the red-face test?
By Jon Hyman
Have you ever refused to eat at fast food sandwich because the pickles were off? Not “off” as in omitted, or “off” as in taste, but “off” as...
WIRTW #339 (the “iWork” edition)
By Jon Hyman
What’s it like to work for the richest and most admired company in the world? Boy Genius Report writes that being an Apple employee might n...
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court to take up issue of workplace religious accommodation
By Jon Hyman
It’s day one for the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014-2015 term, and the Court has already made big employment law news. The Court has accepted th...
Add “no loitering” to the list of potentially unlawful work rules, per the #NLRB
By Jon Hyman
It’s no secret that the NLRB is waging a war against facially neutral employment policies. You can add “no loitering” rules to its list of v...