File this in your “Don’t Do This When Conducting a RIF” folder. As highlighted by the folks at the Atlanta Employment Lawyer Blog, employers should be wary of eliminating the position of an employee who announces days earlier that he will need several weeks off for surgery. When the evidence shows that this employee
FMLA FAQ: Can an Employer Credit Pre-FMLA Leave Against an Employee’s FMLA Entitlement When the Employee Becomes Eligible?
Q. We provide our employees “non-FMLA” leave after they have worked for us for six months. They are given up to six weeks off during that time if it can be certified by a physician. Since these employees are not eligible for FMLA leave at this point, can we credit the time they took off against their
Ruh Roh Raggy! A Leave of Absence to Care for Your Pet?
I love my Golden Retriever, Abby. I really do. But this development below is a bit too much, especially for this management-side attorney.
Is it possible that employees in Florida soon may be eligible to take a leave of absence when their pets are abused or subjected to the threat of abuse? As Eric Meyer
FMLA Insights Voted No. 2 Labor and Employment Blog of 2011
A very special thanks to all of our readers for voting us the No. 2 Labor and Employment blog of 2011. Last week, LexisNexis notified us that we not only made it into the Top 25 Labor and Employment blogs of 2011, we finished in SECOND place!
When we started this blog a bit more than
Best Practices: FMLA Leave to Care for an Adult Child
Perhaps it’s just me, but I recently have received several calls from clients inquiring about an employee’s right to take FMLA leave to care for an adult child (i.e., age 18 or older). Some examples include: Can a grandparent take FMLA leave to care for her daughter after the birth of her baby? Or can