Wickens Herzer Panza is pleased to announce the addition of Attorney Jonathan T. Hyman to its Board of Directors, Litigation Department, and Employment & Labor practice team.
He focuses his practice on management-side labor and employment law, providing businesses proactive solutions to solve their workforce problems and reactive solutions when they find themselves litigating against an employee or group of employees.
Proactively, Mr. Hyman serves as outside in-house counsel for businesses. He is the voice on the other end of a phone when a business needs advice on firing an employee, a policy or agreement drafted, guidance on a leave of absence, disability accommodation, or internal complaint or investigation, or information on any number of other issues that plague human resources professionals and businesses daily. Mr. Hyman also has extensive experience on more specialized labor and employment law issues, such as wage and hour compliance, social media, cybersecurity, and other workplace technology concerns, affirmative action compliance, and union avoidance and labor relations.
Reactively, Mr. Hyman represents businesses in employment and labor litigation, including discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and claims, non-competition and trade-secret misappropriation disputes, wage-and-hour class and collective actions, and union certification and decertification matters.
He has been selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers© List (2016-2021); Ohio Rising Stars List (2007, 2009-2013); and recognized by the National Association of Social Workers, Ohio Chapter, Region III, as Public Citizen of the Year (2019). He is also the author of the renowned and award-winning Ohio Employer Law Blog (www.ohioemployerlawblog.com, an American Bar Association Blawg Hall of Fame inductee), which he updates daily to provide businesses and human resources professionals breaking news and other updates on the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment law.
Jon is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Binghamton University. He currently resides with his family in Berea.
Welcome, Jon!