Coronavirus Update 4-12-2021: It’s time to end pandemic PTO hesitancy
I haven't taken a proper vacation in 25 months. We were supposed to go to Portugal last March, but then Covid happened. In the 13 months...
Coronavirus Update 4-9-2021: Income tax season has exacerbated the ongoing Covid plague of unemployment fraud
By Jon Hyman
One of the lasting lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic for businesses is our broken state unemployment systems. State governments have paid out...
Title VII and “fringe" religions
By Jon Hyman
"A pagan says she faced religious discrimination while working at Panera. Now, she’s suing." So reads the headline at the Washing...
6th Circuit applies False Claim Act’s anti-retaliation protections to ex-employees
By Jon Hyman
In the history of this blog's 3,603 posts, I've never written about the False Claim Act. If you've been waiting with bated breat...
Coronavirus Update 4-6-2021: Is work from home not all it’s cracked up to be?
By Jon Hyman
Three weeks ago I returned to the office. That return matched my start date at Wickens Herzer Panza . I decided that it'd be difficult,...
Coronavirus Update 4-5-2021: The Covid lawsuits are coming
By Jon Hyman
Thirteen months into the pandemic, the COVID-related employment lawsuits are starting to roll into courthouses. Consider the following, all ...
No foolin': the most meaningful changes to Ohio's employment discrimination law take effect in two weeks
By Jon Hyman
Two weeks from today, H.B. 352 takes effect and brings the most significant changes to Ohio's workplace discrimination statute since it...