Poor communication of layoffs raises significant risks
According to CNN , French workers are holding management hostage over their refusal to negotiate severance: Hundreds of French workers,...
Do you know? Charging for pre-employment medical exam
By Jon Hyman
The Americans with Disabilities Act sets limits on when and how employers can ask applicants or employees medical questions. At the pre-empl...
How to layoff the protected
By Jon Hyman
Sunday’s New York Times ran an articles called When the Stork Carries a Pink Slip . It makes the point that there is nothing illegal about i...
WIRTW #72
By Jon Hyman
I’ve never been a huge fan of Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania’s senior Senator. When I was a junior in high school, I participated Presidential ...
Applying the federal COBRA subsidy to Ohio’s Mini-COBRA law
By Jon Hyman
As I’ve previously reported, the federal stimulus bill, enacted last month, requires employers to provide a 65% subsidy of COBRA premiums f...
Department of Labor to step up enforcement; employers should step up self-audits
By Jon Hyman
You may have noticed that I write a lot about wage and hour issues. I do so because it’s an issue that often gets even well-intentioned busi...
Do you know? Pay for employee training time
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? Lost of opportunities exist for employees to train, take educational classes, or otherwise better themselves – inside classes, ...