Jonathan T. Hyman
Ohio
Wickens Herzer Panza
35765 Chester Road
Avon, OH 44011
United States
Tel: 440.695.8044
Email:
JHyman@WickensLaw.com
Web:
www.wickenslaw.com
Jon Hyman is Chairperson of the Employment and Labor practice group at Wickens Herzer Panza and also serves on the Firm’s Board of Directors. Jon 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, Jon 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.
Jon 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, Jon represents businesses in employment and labor litigation, including discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and wrongful discharge claims, non-competition and trade-secret misappropriation disputes, wage-and-hour class and collective actions, and union certification and decertification matters.
He is also the founder and practice group leader of the Firm’s Craft Beer practice. In that capacity, he helps brewers, brew pubs and restaurants, and businesses that serve the craft beer industry navigate their specialized business, legal, and regulatory issues.
Jon 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.
Honors, Awards & Recognition
- Selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers© List (2016-2024)
- Selected to the Super Lawyers© Ohio Rising Stars List (2007, 2009-2013)
- National Association of Social Workers, Ohio Chapter, Region III, Public Citizen of the Year (2019)
- Recognized by the ABA Journal as one of the top 100 legal blogs (2010-2015); inducted into the ABA
- Journal’s Blawg Hall of Fame (2016)
Our areas of expertise include:
- EEOC/OCRC Charges
- OSHA Investigations
- Workers’ Compensation claims administration and court of appeals issues
- Wage and Hour Compliance
- FLSA collective and class action lawsuits
- Labor Management Relations, including union organizing and collective bargaining
- Employee Handbooks, Policies and Procedures
- Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Investigations
- Workplace Training
- ADA/FMLA Administration
- Discrimination litigation
- Employment Agreements, including employment contracts, non-compete/trade secret agreements, severance agreements
- We also have unique experience representing craft breweries
Additionally, we have extensive experience in employee benefits and ERISA. Our goal is to develop strategic solutions that achieve the maximum benefits for owners while also providing desirable benefits for employees.
We’re more than legal counsel, too. We’re a business partnership, an advocate for our clients and advisors who support, give advice and protect those we work with. We are our clients’ trusted advisor and make it our mission to be responsive, accountable, proactive and client-centered. Our Firm has offices in Avon, Ohio, and Sandusky, Ohio.