Why are employers testing job applicants for prescription medications?
During a pre-employment medical examination and drug screen, an applicant tests positive for Alprazolam, the generic form of Xanax (a medic...
NLRB offers significant and important guidance on its new(ish) employee handbook rules
By Jon Hyman
It’s been just over 18 months since the NLRB decided Boeing Co. , perhaps its most significant decision in decades. It rewrote more than a...
Why, yesterday, in France was a stadium full of people chanting “EQUAL PAY?”
By Jon Hyman
Indisputable fact no. 1: Women and men should earn the same pay for the same work. Indisputable fact no. 2: The players on the United St...
4 ways your employees are like a new puppy
By Jon Hyman
We are on day 5 of new puppy in the Hyman household. Dante is adjusting well, as are we (including big sister Loula … more or less). It’s be...
There’s no such thing as “reverse” discrimination—it’s all just discrimination
By Jon Hyman
According to the New York Post , a Caucasian 20-year veteran attorney for the Legal Aid Society is suing her former employer for race dis...
Don’t forget about overtime pay when providing bonuses to non-exempt employees
By Jon Hyman
Last week Chipotle announced a new bonus plan that could earn its employees up to an extra month of pay each year. Per the chain’s press r...
Does an employer have a duty to protect the personal information of its employees? (Part 3)
By Jon Hyman
Employees trust their employers with a whole bunch of personal information. Social security numbers, medical documents, insurance records,...