Ohio's new cybersecurity safe harbor for businesses means the time for cybersecurity compliance is NOW

Do you know that the average total cost of a data breach to a business is $3.86 million?

This is a 6.4% increase over the past year.

For companies doing business in Ohio, some relief is on the way.

Protecting your business from an "Omarosa": workplace recordings and the law

Omarosa Manigault-Newman, formerly a contestant on Donald Trump's The Apprentice and also formerly an employee in President Trump's White House, secretly recorded Chief of Staff John Kelly firing her.

In 38 states plus the District of Columbia, this surreptitious recording would be perfectly legal.

WIRTW #518 (the “no-stress zone” edition)

What de-stresses you? Where do you go, or what do you do, that makes all the stress in your life melt away?

My wife and I recently spent a few days in Sedona, Arizona. We hiked, we jeep-toured, and we drank wine.

It was the most stress-free we've felt in years.

No one should be told to "suck it up" after requesting FMLA leave

If this was August 2017, I would be touting today's post as a strong contender for the "Worst Employer of the Year." It says a lot, however, about the quality (moral suckitude?) of this year's nominees that today's post can't even scratch 2018's list of nominees.

Juicing the reasonable accommodation low-hanging fruit

Would you rather spend seven figures to lose a lawsuit, or $1.69 to allow a diabetic employee to drink a bottle of orange juice?

The answer should be pretty clear.

Or maybe not?

Despite what one court held, workplace discrimination laws DO protect employees from non-employees

Pop quiz: Can an employer ignore harassment or other discriminatory behavior directed at employees by non-employees?

If your answer is "yes," you'd be in agreement with the court in Shaw v. Access Ohio (Ohio Ct. App. 7/27/18).

You'd also be dead wrong.

On religious liberty vs. workplace discrimination laws

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a "Religious Liberty Task Force" It will enforce a 2017 DOJ memo that ordered federal agencies to take the broadest possible interpretation of "religious liberty" when enforcing federal laws, including Title VII and other anti-discrimination laws.

According to Mr. Sessions, the task force as a necessary to "confront and defeat" secularism, "a dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom."