Skip to content

Ohio Employer Law Blog

  • Home
  • About Jon Hyman
  • Contact Jon
Browse by Topic
  • best of...
  • craft beer
  • disability/accommodation
  • discrimination
  • employment agreements/policies
  • harassment
  • labor relations
  • leave management/FMLA
  • retaliation
  • technology
  • trade secrets/competition
  • wage and hour
  • what I'm reading
  • workplace safety
  • worst employer of the year

Can an employer ask an employee to stop groaning in pain all the time if she refuses to seek medical treatment?

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 By Jon Hyman

Last week I received the following email from Alison Green , who writes the entertaining and informative blog, Ask a Manager . Hi Jon, ...

Read the full post

Is a vacation during an FMLA leave inconsistent with an employee’s serious health condition?

Monday, August 26, 2019 By Jon Hyman

A few months ago I wrote about an employee fired for taking a fishing trip while out on an FMLA leave. In that case, the court upheld the ...

Read the full post

WIRTW #565 (the “back to school” edition)

Friday, August 23, 2019 By Jon Hyman

My kids went back to school this week. 5th grade for Donovan and 8th grade for Norah. I sent them off with this advice. Try your hardest...

Read the full post

The EEOC asks the Supreme Court to legalize sex discrimination

Thursday, August 22, 2019 By Jon Hyman

This fall, the Supreme Court will hear argument in three cases to decide whether Title VII’s coverage of sex discrimination also implicit...

Read the full post

Does the ADA cover morbid obesity? Federal appellate court says maybe 🤷‍♂️

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 By Jon Hyman

Jose Valtierra weighed 370 pounds at the time Medtronic terminated his employment in 2014 for falsifying job reports. Valtierra claimed th...

Read the full post

← Newer Posts Older Posts →
Jon Hyman

Jon Hyman

Management-side employment lawyer. Chair of Employment & Labor and Craft Beer practices at Wickens Herzer Panza.

Get the Ohio Employer Law Blog in your inbox

Practical employment-law insights for employers, delivered whenever a new post goes live.

Please wait...
Enter your email address to subscribe. Click to hide
Check your email address and try again. Click to hide
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Powered by FeedBlitz

Prefer RSS? Subscribe by feed.

Search this blog

Wickens Herzer Panza

When your business needs more than a blog post, Jon and the Employment & Labor team at Wickens Herzer Panza can help.

Talk to Jon → Meet the Employment & Labor team →
Follow Jon on LinkedIn
Legal Disclaimer
Ohio Employer Law Blog by Jon Hyman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Header image by Jon Snyder/Wired.com, republished under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license.
Copyright © 2007–2026, Jon Hyman. All rights reserved.