Imagine spending four consecutive days deepening your knowledge of the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act and gaining practical insight to manage employee absences and accommodations.
Interested?
For the past few years, I’ve conducted an FMLA master class, switching over last year to an ADA course. This year, I am
Every once in awhile, the U.S. Department of Labor rattles its saber, warning employers that it’s readying itself for aggressive enforcement investigations reviewing alleged FMLA violations.
For instance, two years ago, the DOL announced that it would ramp up FMLA audits (as well as wage and hour audits generally) those employers in the warehouse and
Join me for my annual FMLA/ADA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge.
This year, due to overwhelming demand, we’re covering remote work as an ADA accommodation.
When: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time)
Online registration: Click Here to register
As employers increasingly require employees to return
Meet Ray.
Ray is to the FMLA as Patrick Mahomes is to football. Ray is an FMLA pro, having taken FMLA leave a total of 158 times over three years. No joke. F-M-L-A simply rolled off Ray’s tongue, enabling him to take leave on countless occasions.
As the story goes, Ray started his latest FMLA
Beads of sweat formed on my forehead, and my eyes began tearing up.
It was one month ago, and all it took was five minutes.
I was seated among 35 of my Littler colleagues, all of us participating in a week-long Executive Leadership Program through Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Halfway through the week
The wheels are turning, aren’t they?
This question is another arising out of a webinar I recently conducted with EEOC Legal Counsel Carol Miaskoff and Tracie DeFreitas (Job Accommodation Network) regarding the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).
A few weeks back, I addressed whether FMLA medical certification could be requested from an employee who seeks
For decades, employers have applied the usual FMLA rules for an employee who cannot work because of limitations due to pregnancy. When these limitations render a pregnant employee unable to work, the employer has always had the right to obtain medical certification to confirm the limitation and the employee’s need for leave from work.
When
Love is in the air! Cupid’s arrow came in the form of something special this year – the ABA’s summary of 2023 FMLA decisions!
Every spring, the ABA’s Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee publishes a comprehensive report of FMLA decisions handed down by the federal courts in the previous year. Although our little FMLA blog
This morning, the day after the Super Bowl, 16.1 million of your employees will call in “sick.”
Over 6 million of these employees will face discipline for their call-in, according to UKG, which provides workforce management and human resource management services.
I didn’t need this survey to remind me that employers face an
Do you, by chance, offer your employees “Paw-ternity” leave?
More seriously, how about NICU leave?
With the ever-increasing reality that the federal government will offer no lifeline to streamline the ever-growing list of states mandating employee paid leave, employers have decided to take the lead, leading to a new wave of creative leave benefits to