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The 3rd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the pregnant pauser

By Jon Hyman

January 26, 2021

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Pregnancy discrimination has been illegal for at least 43 years. You’d think employers would know better. You’d also lose a lot of bets if you bet against the ignorance of some employers. Meet Awon Phie LLC, which operates a Holiday Inn Express in Corpus Chrisi, Texas, our third nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021.” How did it earn its nomination? According to a lawsuit the EEOC filed against it, three weeks after hiring an…

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Coronavirus Update 1-25-2021: President Biden calls for unemployment benefits to employees who refuse to work because of Covid

By Jon Hyman

January 25, 2021

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Late last week, President Biden signaled that part of his overall plan to provide economic relief for American families and businesses amid the COVID-19 crisis is to broaden the availability of unemployment benefits to employees who quit their jobs related to Covid. Specifically, the president is “asking the U.S. Department of Labor to consider clarifying that workers who refuse unsafe working conditions can still receive unemployment insurance.” Allowing employees who quit in the name of…

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Civil rights is not a pizza

By Jon Hyman

January 22, 2021

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Among the litany of executive orders President Biden issued in his first two days in office was one on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation. It’s a beautiful statement adopting as the policy of the federal government the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock that Title VII’s definition of sex explicitly includes LGBTQ employees. President Biden wrote: Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should…

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Instead of reading my thoughts, today I offer you two options to listen to them

By Jon Hyman

January 21, 2021

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One of the great benefits of this blog is the opportunities it has opened for me to network with others. One of the great benefits of that networking is the ability to sometimes have my voice heard on other platforms. Today, I offer for your listening pleasure two podcasts on which I’ve recently appeared, the HR Social Hour Half Hour Podcast, and the Tech Leader’s Toolbox Podcast. First, I was the guest on…

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Inauguration Day

By Jon Hyman

January 20, 2021

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Today is a wonderful day. 28 years ago, January 20, 1993, I was on the National Mall experiencing the inauguration of Bill Clinton. One of my absolute best memories. I treasure the day I spent as part of history. Democrat or Republican, left or right, liberal or conservative, it’s a day that we should ALL come together to celebrate our nation and our glorious democracy. So even if you disagree with the person placing his…

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What employers can expect from Biden’s presidency: A temporary emergency OSHA standard for COVID-19

By Jon Hyman

January 20, 2021

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the identification of the first COVID-19 case in the United States. On January 20, 2020, the State of Washington and the CDC confirmed that someone in Washington State had contracted the virus. Since then, 24,809,840 additional Americans have contracted Covid, and 411,520 have died from it. All the while, OSHA, the federal agency charged with protecting health and safety in the workplace, has done very little to address the…

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Biden calls for extension and expansion of FFCRA

By Jon Hyman

January 19, 2021

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As you should hopefully be aware, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the federal law that provided paid leave to employees for Covid-related absences, expired on December 31, 2020, with an option for employers to voluntarily expand leave through March 31, 2021. The problem, however, is that while this leave has expired or will soon expire, COVID-19 is not expiring any time soon. Help, however, may soon be on the way, as part…

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What employers can expect from Biden’s presidency: A $15 minimum wage

By Jon Hyman

January 18, 2021

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This week I’ll be examining what employers can expect from Joe Biden’s presidency. Today, a $15 minimum wage. Late last week President-elect Biden released his America Rescue Plan, a comprehensive legislative package to provide relief to those struggling because of COVID-19. Among its proposals was a $15 minimum wage. Here’s what the president-elect’s proposal says: Throughout the pandemic, millions of American workers have put their lives on the line to keep their communities and…

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The 2nd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the stillbirthing leave spurner

By Jon Hyman

January 15, 2021

When I close out this contest at the end of each year I ask myself, “Jon, will you be able to find sufficiently awful nominees for the next year?” Each year answers this question with a resounding yes. 2021 is no exception. I bring you the District of Columbia Public Schools, which denied maternity leave to a teacher after she suffered the tragedy of delivering a stillborn baby. I’m finding it hard to find words…

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H.B. 352 finally fixes Ohio’s broken employment discrimination statute for employers

By Jon Hyman

January 14, 2021

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For lack of more artful description, Ohio’s employment discrimination law was a mess. It exposed employers to claims for up to six years (the longest such statute of limitations in the country), contained no less than three different ways for employees to file age discrimination claims (each with different remedies and filing deadlines), rendered managers and supervisors personally liable for discrimination, and omitted any filing prerequisites with the state civil rights agency. The start of…

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The 3rd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the pregnant pauser

Coronavirus Update 1-25-2021: President Biden calls for unemployment benefits to employees who refuse to work because of Covid

Civil rights is not a pizza

Instead of reading my thoughts, today I offer you two options to listen to them

Inauguration Day

What employers can expect from Biden’s presidency: A temporary emergency OSHA standard for COVID-19

Biden calls for extension and expansion of FFCRA

What employers can expect from Biden’s presidency: A $15 minimum wage

The 2nd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the stillbirthing leave spurner

H.B. 352 finally fixes Ohio’s broken employment discrimination statute for employers

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