Employers, for the love of God, please stop banning employees from discussing their wages
I came across the following recent post on the legaladvice subreddit . Work for a brewery. GM and owner … informed everyone that we needed...
Settlement highlights wage and hour risks of remote work
By Jon Hyman
The City of Cleveland has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle the wage and hour claim of a City Hall employee who claimed that she wasn't p...
A supersized harassment settlement highlights the extra care employers must take when employing minors
By Jon Hyman
How bad must sexual harassment be for an employer to settle a harassment case for $2 million? This bad. AMTCR—the owner of 18 McDonald's...
WIRTW #655: the “FTC did WHAT?!?!” edition
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, the FTC broke the employment law internet when it announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if it takes effect, would ban...
While I was away, Congress pumped life into workplace rights of pregnant employees and new moms
By Jon Hyman
Two laws — the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act — took effect wh...
Just because the law may not require first aid training in your workplace doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea
By Jon Hyman
There is no law or regulation that requires employers to have a person or persons trained to provide first aid in the workplace. Instead, OS...
Do you know what to do when an employee suffers a severe accident at work?
By Jon Hyman
It was like nothing we've ever seen in a televised sporting event … and hope we never see again. During last night's Monday Night F...