Avoiding liability missteps with year-end bonuses
As employers plan for year-end bonus payments to employees, you need to learn the difference between nondiscretionary bonuses, discretionary...
Your religion isn’t a license to discriminate (but we may need to accommodate you anyway)
By Jon Hyman
Pronouns confuse me. It's not that I want to misgender anyone. In fact, quite to the contrary, I try really hard to get people's pro...
WIRTW #654: the “gifts” edition
By Jon Hyman
What's the best holiday gift you've ever given or received? With the holidays quickly approaching, this is the question Norah and I ...
Reasonable accommodations are for actual disabilities, not unhinged conspiracies
By Jon Hyman
If I've learned one thing from my 25+ years of practicing law it's that when a court describes your arguments as a "rambling an...
Today is your LAST chance to vote for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
By Jon Hyman
If you haven't yet cast your ballot for The Worst Employer of 2022, time is quickly running out. Polls close at the end of today. In c...
B-i-t-c-h spells dismissal
By Jon Hyman
We're a team, we need to work together. Maybe we need to have a department meeting where we workshop with each other and really get to k...
A tale of two employee nondisclosure agreements
By Jon Hyman
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." This is perhaps the most famous opening line in the history of literature,...