According to The Wall Street Journal , some businesses are using alcohol to entice their employees to return to the office. As businesses wo...

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Ronald Burns, a maintenance technician at Berry Global, was the victim of three instances of racial harassment over the span of 17 days. Bur...

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Kevin Berling, a 10-month employee of Gravity Diagnostics, made a simple request of the manager of his office —"Please don't throw ...

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How do I know that labor unions are making raging comeback? Historically, my posts on unions, union organizing, and union avoidance would st...

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Beginning July 6, 2022, Ohio employers have a new set of rules under which to pay their employees.  SB 47 revamps Ohio's wage and hour ...

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"Due to the 6.8% inflation rate, all US workers are entitled to at least a 6.8% pay adjustment. We have received reports of some ABUSIV...

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One of the tactics workers used to successfully organize Amazon's Staten Island fulfillment center was the use of "salts." ...

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“Jon, why are you anti-union?” I’ve received this question a lot lately. Between all of my posts about the need for all employers (including...

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Do you know? Non-plastic straws, such as those made of paper or plant material, can include wheat as a binder? Norah discovered this fact af...

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How often have you looked at you bill at a restaurant and have seen an added service fee? Do you think to yourself, "No need to tip; it...

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I tell my students, "When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if...

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Tomorrow at 5 pm I'm participating in an online panel discussing fair compensation in the craft beer industry. It's part of the Craf...

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Last Friday, workers won the first-ever union election at an Amazon warehouse (a fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York). This is the...

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To wrap things up this week, I thought I'd update two stories. 1/ UCLA Unpaid Job Posting In addition to taking down the offensive job p...

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Less than one and one-half miles away from the flagship Starbucks that launched a global coffee empire five decades ago, employees unanimous...

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Yesterday I explained   why your company needs a code of conduct separate from or adjunct to your already-existing anti-harassment policy. ...

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Meet Brienne Allan , a brewer at Notch Brewing in Salem, Mass. In May 2021 she asked a simple question in an Instagram Story — "What se...

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I woke up Saturday morning to a tweet asking me for my take on this job posting . I'm going to say this one time, really loudly, for th...

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Over the years I've shared a lot of videos of my daughter performing. At the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At Ohio Bike Week. At the Bes...

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No matter how many times you read our federal workplace anti-discrimination laws, you won't find the word "caregiver" among th...

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Trillium Asset Management, which holds $48 million of Starbucks stock, is leading the charge on behalf of a billion-dollar-plus group of inv...

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After a workplace discussion between employees about employees had been discussing concerns about a superior's management style, an empl...

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I thought I had seen all variety and manner of worst employer. Then Suzanne Lucas sent me this story . Boss who gave employees energy drin...

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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of guesting on DriveThruHR , one of the oldest and (in my opinion) best HR radio shows/podcasts. We dis...

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A federal judge has ordered American Made Bags to pay $189,756 to a group of 48 employees, half as unpaid wages and half as liquidated dama...

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"Iraene" asks the following question on the Antiwork subreddit . I was told to round down or round up my time. So if I start work...

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It's been nearly five years since I asked this question : "Is your non-compete agreement killing a fly with a sledgehammer?" N...

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It was a simple  question posed in the Craft Beef Professionals Facebook group : "Conversations on fair compensation are extremely imp...

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Have you heard about Pravda Brewery , in Lviv, Ukraine. It has stopped producing craft beer and instead is making Molotov cocktails for the ...

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Vaccine mandates are a crime against humanity. If you are not speaking out against them, you are a conspirator. Those are the words Josh St...

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Nearly two years ago, I re-branded the Ohio Employer Law Blog as the Coronavirus Law Blog . It was a bit of marketing combined with the rea...

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To cases recently settled by the EEOC illustrate the point that stereotypes of protected-class employees are a quick path an expensive lesso...

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The CDC has issued new mask guidance based on the level of Covid-19 in a specific county.  In counties with a low level of Covid ( green )...

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I pray for the people of Ukraine. I pray for democracy. I pray for diplomacy. I pray for Europe. I pray for troops everywhere, ours and ever...

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I thought I had my next Worst Employer nominee. News broke yesterday of the mass exodus of employees from real estate company CoStar after...

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No employment law is more misunderstood and misapplied by employers than the Fair Labor Standards Act, our federal wage and hour law. There ...

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"AITA for turning my work phone off on vacation?" That's the question that someone recently posted on the eponymous subreddit...

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It's been a little over three months since a federal district court in Forth Worth, Texas, denied a preliminary injunction to a group o...

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I spent yesterday at my kids' school, Lake Ridge Academy . With the assistance of Grant Lichtman , an internationally recognized thought...

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You'd think an employer with the name Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities  would know a thing or two about complying with workpl...

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When is the last time you recall Congress agreeing on anything ? Well, it happened last week, when the Senate passed the  Ending Forced Arbi...

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The question, "What do you do for a living," doesn't have a straight-line answer. My law firm  bio offers several answers.  T...

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I can't do these truly awful allegations of systemic racism, racist harassment, and retaliation any more justice than the actual allegat...

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On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14036, Promoting Competition in the American Economy . Its goal is to reduce the tr...

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Facing the consequences of some poor business decisions and an uncertain future, Peloton made the difficult decision to lay off approximatel...

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Yesterday, the White House Task Force on Worker Organization and Empowerment released its 45-page report  on the use of executive branch pol...

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Staci Russell, a dean at Cornerstone Health High School, sued her employer for sex discrimination after she was passed over for the open pri...

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A big thank you to  Allessandria Polizzi  for having me as a guest on her Be Verdant Podcast . We took a 40-minute tour through the state of...

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I turn 49 years old in nine days. I was recently reminded of my age when I came across this blog post from my alma mater, Binghamton Univer...

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If you haven't read the lawsuit Brian Flores filed against the NFL and three of its franchises, you should. It reads like a law school ...

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"Focus on your health," is a nice sentiment for an employer to share with an employee who is awaiting the results of cancer testin...

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In the before times, when I actually traveled for business, I'd always try to come home with a souvenir for the kids. A t-shirt, a stuff...

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I return to the office today after a one-week Covid-inducted work-from-home hiatus. I'm fortunate that as a professional I have the abil...

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