"Do as I say, not as I do" — HR leader fired for harassment loses discrimination lawsuit
A female HR supervisor attends an out-of-town leadership retreat with some co-workers. They observe her at the hotel bar telling off-color j...
By Jon Hyman
A female HR supervisor attends an out-of-town leadership retreat with some co-workers. They observe her at the hotel bar telling off-color j...
By Jon Hyman
Can an HR software vendor be held liable for the alleged discriminatory hiring decisions of its customers? According to one federal court, t...
By Jon Hyman
"I am not taking this training because it's a joke … making non-white colleagues all victims and turning white colleagues … into vi...
By Jon Hyman
I love to travel for two primary reasons: to see things and to experience things. On my vacation to São Miguel in the Azores Islands, I saw ...
By Jon Hyman
Dwight Jackson, a Black man, claims that the Shinola Hotel denied him a job interview because of his race. He knows this, he says, because ...
By Jon Hyman
I'll be back with a fresh spirit and fresh content on July 10. This lawyer is officially on vacation. Here's what I read this week t...
By Jon Hyman
During Joyce Morgan's employment at Convenient Food Mar, her co-worker, Todd Wise, subjected her to sustained and prolonged sexual haras...
By Jon Hyman
Does recovery following surgery qualify as a "disability" under the ADA? Well, it depends. Consider, for example, the recent court...
By Jon Hyman
"What do you say to teachers who don't share your religious views?" "Don't look at it." That was the exchange ...
By Jon Hyman
Being as active as I am on social media has allowed me to amass some pretty cool friends over the years. I recently had the chance to sit do...
By Jon Hyman
News broke earlier this month that Hamdi Ulukaya, the billionaire founder of Chobani yogurt, purchased the assets of Anchor Brewing after it...
By Jon Hyman
Latrice Crispell, a 23-year employee of FCA working as a floater on its truck assembly line, suffered from major depression and anxiety, whi...
By Jon Hyman
Today, the EEOC's regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act go into effect. Thanks to two very recent federal court o...
By Jon Hyman
"I'm going to kill you." "You're a dead man." That's what Mario and Jaime Lopez, two of the owners and manag...
By Jon Hyman
Until yesterday, I had never heard of a "trad-wife" or of Lilly Gaddis. A trad-wife is a burgeoning trend of women embracing tradi...
By Jon Hyman
As seen on the legaladvice subreddit: "My company just told us about a new policy where any meeting or training that is held over the l...
By Jon Hyman
Q: What do you win for coming in 6th place in 2023's Worst Employer contest? A: 20 years in federal prison. That's what Stavros Papa...
By Jon Hyman
Samantha Howard worked as a pharmacist for Boswell Regional Health Center. She suffers from Type I diabetes along with hypoglycemic unawaren...
By Jon Hyman
Last summer, my family and I fell in love hard with Portugal. So, this summer we are going back, sort of. In a little over three weeks we l...
By Jon Hyman
Some numbers to consider on June 6, 2024, the 80th anniversary of D-Day: 75 million: the number of people who died during WWII. 420,000: the...