Articles by Jon Hyman

An Indiana school district had a different way to train its employees to prepare for an active shooter.

This issue is even more important in today’s tight economy.

The First Amendment right to free speech grants private-sector employees zero constitutional rights or protections.

Blogger Jon Hyman has written before about the need to put the human back in human resources. The EEOC apparently agrees with him.

Title VII should not permit an employer to Plessy v. Ferguson its workforce for any reason.

According to Fortune.com, some companies have begun using this term as a hiring criteria in job postings.

The president made an executive order prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity last year.

Even if coulrophobia is an ADA-protected disability, that's only half of the equation to determine whether the ADA offers job protections to an individual with a disability.

An 'honest belief' will not save an employer who denies an employee’s FMLA request without first exhausting all available avenues of communication and clarification with the employee.

What is the difference between sexual discrimination and sexual favoritism? The former is illegal, while the latter isn’t.

What’s the best defense to a discrimination claim? Hire others in the same protected group.

Since Congress expanded the definition of 'disability' in 2009, conventional wisdom has said that most medical conditions will qualify for protection under the ADA. This case sets the bounds of the exception.

The customer can never choose the race of the person working for you. The customer might be right about a lot things, but discrimination is not one of them.

All three documents are required reading for any employers with female employees of child-bearing age.