Why we accommodate employees
Lyerly v. Southwest Airlines (S.D. Tex. 12/9/15) provides a textbook example of why we accommodate employees. This employer bent over back...
What you need to know (for now) about smartphone use and overtime pay
By Jon Hyman
I first wrote about the possibility of employees seeking unpaid overtime for time spent away from work checking emails on mobile devices all...
Professionalism, social media, and the workplace
By Jon Hyman
An employee was recently terminated because of this post on his personal Facebook page:
WIRTW #393 (the “Darth Trump” edition)
By Jon Hyman
The Internet was invented in 1983 . It’s taken me 32 years to figure out why. The Internet was invented so that someone could replace audio ...
#ElderlyChristmasSongs and age discrimination
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, #ElderlyChristmasSongs trended on Twitter. Yes, it’s meant to be a joke, and, yes, some were even funny. Now here’s the part w...