Best of -- Lessons from Childrens' Lit
"Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. " So starts Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type , one of my soon to be two year o...
Best of -- Use a wage and hour audit to proactively head off claims
By Jon Hyman
" Wage Wars: Workers are Winning Huge Overtime Lawsuits ," graces the cover of this week's BusinessWeek magazine. It should...
Best of -- Document, document, document
By Jon Hyman
As the record reflects, there was a myriad of problems with Plaintiff's job performance and treatment of his subordinates that justified...
Best of -- A Whopper of a Sex Harassment Claim
By Jon Hyman
One of the surest ways for a company to guard against harassment lawsuits is to have in place a reasonable mechanism by which a victim of ha...
Best of -- Sixth Circuit confirms that it will not second-guess an employer's honest belief
By Jon Hyman
The following two Sixth Circuit decisions make it clear that pretext for discrimination or retaliation does not exist if the employer engage...
The softer side of employment law
By Jon Hyman
Ellis v. United Parcel Service , decided this week by the 7th Circuit, is legally interesting in its dealing with the issues of interracial ...
Lawsuit illustrates potential problems with employee testing
By Jon Hyman
Today's Jackson (Tennessee) Sun is reporting that Kilgore Flares Co., a Tennessee defense weaponry manufacturer, has been hit with a cl...