October 2021

Will Federal Paid Leave Finally Become Law? We’ll Likely Learn This Week, but Here’s Where We Stand as of Today

By Jeff Nowak on October 26, 2021

Back in April, President Biden unveiled an aggressive plan to provide federal paid family and medical leave to employees at workplaces across America. Dubbed the “American Families Plan,” the law would provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave to American workers essentially for the same reasons currently covered by the FMLA.

With…

If an Employee Requests an Exemption from the COVID-19 Vaccine, Can an Employer Lawfully Place the Employee on a Leave of Absence?

By Jeff Nowak on October 22, 2021

Posted in ADA

Raise your hand if you’re neck deep in COVID-19 vaccine exemption requests. [Yeah, I get it, you’re neck deep, so you can’t raise your hand.]

My friends, this exemption onslaught will only get more intense as we await OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that will require employers with over 100 employees to mandate…