FMLA does not excuse poor performance
Earlier in the week, I discussed Tilley v. Kalamazoo , in which an employer took one on the chin for disciplining an employee for not doing ...
Your employees are social media-ing at work, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it
By Jon Hyman
A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center confirmed what I have long thought. Your employees are using social media a work — 77 ...
FMLA leave means leave, period.
By Jon Hyman
FMLA leave means leave . That is, an employee exercising rights under the FMLA to take protected time-off from work must be relieved of th...
The attack on the NLRB's new joint-employer standard intensifies
By Jon Hyman
Last week was a good week for opponents of the NLRB’s new, and more liberal, joint-employer standard, announced last summer in Browning-Fe...
WIRTW #418 (the #OneForTheLand edition)
By Jon Hyman
I couldn’t see much at Wednesday’s Cavs victory parade. A late start + 1.3 million people + an unwillingness to wade into the masses = soaki...