Beware the email chain of fools
A software engineer rejected for a job by GoDaddy is suing the company for discrimination. Why does he believe that the company discriminate...
Topic: technology
Putting together the puzzle on off-duty emails and overtime
By Jon Hyman
Employers, I can see the writing on the wall, and it’s not looking good for your continued reliance on your non-exempt employees using their...
Is hiring for “digital natives” age discrimination?
By Jon Hyman
Let’s say you’re looking to fill a position at your company that requires a certain degree of technical proficiency. Or, you just want to ma...
Your employees are your biggest security risk
By Jon Hyman
It seems that every week we read a story about another company that has been hacked and had its information and data compromised. Most compa...
Some thoughts on accommodations and flexible workplaces
By Jon Hyman
I’ve been thinking a lot over the past three days about the flexibility that employers afford their employees. I am part of a family with tw...
NLRB eviscerates the line between insubordination and protected concerted activity
By Jon Hyman
Employers struggle with how to handle employees to take to social media to vent about work. And, they do so for good reason. For one, employ...
Are Meerkat and Periscope the “next big thing” for employers to worry about?
By Jon Hyman
Have you downloaded Meerkat or Periscope to your iPhone? Do you even know what Meerkat and Periscope are? They are new apps that permit yo...
Is your company ready for WYOD?
By Jon Hyman
At 1 pm today, Apple will formally unveil its Watch to the public. While other companies have launched smartwatches, because it’s Apple, tod...
The internet might be for porn, but not on work computers
By Jon Hyman
I spent yesterday working from home, as Cleveland got socked with nearly a foot of snow and my kids had the day off from school. While work...
New anonymous workplace app raises big workplace issue
By Jon Hyman
Have you heard about Memo ? It an iPhone app that allows individuals to post anonymous comments, both positive and negative, about their emp...
More on data security as an unfair labor practice
By Jon Hyman
A few months ago, I wrote how the NLRB was exploring new areas of potential protected concerted activity to regulate. One such area is info...
Are you doing enough to protect your trade secrets from theft in the cloud?
By Jon Hyman
Do your employees use Dropbox (or Google Drive, or Box, or iCloud, etc.) to store work documents? The appeal of these cloud services is easy...
What if…? Internet use as a disability
By Jon Hyman
Last year I reported on the possibility that Internet use could become an ADA-protected disability. Now, we have one of the first documente...
Do your BYOD employees understand the remote-wipe?
By Jon Hyman
My kids are growing up. For example, we’ve now graduated from me having to wake them up in the morning for school and helping my son get dre...
The Supreme Court’s opinion on cell phone privacy is a must-read for all employers
By Jon Hyman
It’s a rare day that I write a post of which the vast majority is a 900-word quote from a court opinion. Yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Su...
Firing of county employee teaches important lesson about use of mobile technology
By Jon Hyman
We love our phones. We are an iPhone society. I’ve referred to the phenomenon as “ iPhone-ification .” Do you know that there are more mobil...
The NLRB is looking to overturn email solicitation rules
By Jon Hyman
In Register Guard , the NLRB held that an employer’s solicitation or other communication policy can lawfully bar employees’ non-work related...
NLRB judge says employee cannot require its employees to disclaim social media posts
By Jon Hyman
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Read this post before you access your employee’s social media accounts
By Jon Hyman
Susan Fredman Design Group employed Jill Maremont as its Director of Marketing, Public Relations, and E-Commerce. In that capacity, she used...
NLRB ALJ upholds workplace ban on recording devices
By Jon Hyman
Two months ago I wrote the following , concerning whether employers should be thinking about implementing bans on employees using recording ...