Did the 6th Circuit just gut the honest-belief rule?
The only fight I’ve even been in was in 4th grade. For reasons that I can’t remember, Yale Weinstein and I squared off in the schoolyard of ...
WIRTW #365 (the “en français” edition)
By Jon Hyman
One of the curricular pieces I love about my kids’ school is that they start foreign language in kindergarten. My daughter, Norah, is now in...
OSHA chimes in on transgender bathrooms
By Jon Hyman
OSHA is no stranger to regulating workplace bathrooms . Now, Employment Law 360 [sub. req.] reports that OSHA and the National Center for T...
Is hiring for “digital natives” age discrimination?
By Jon Hyman
Let’s say you’re looking to fill a position at your company that requires a certain degree of technical proficiency. Or, you just want to ma...
Failure to accommodate may not equal retaliation, says federal court
By Jon Hyman
In Neely v. Benchmark Family Services (S.D. Ohio 4/21/15) , the plaintiff claimed that his employer retaliated against him for failing to a...
Let’s start treating salaried workers like salaried workers
By Jon Hyman
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a salaried exempt employee. The classification is significant, because it enables ...
WIRTW #366 (the “same-sex marriage” edition)
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , one the Court’s most anticipated cases in years, whi...