Ever since my son, Luke, was a wee lad, we dreamed of going on a major league baseball road trip together.
Baseball runs through our veins, so after years of dreaming, 2022 was our year. Since the beginning of this year,
Guidance & Solutions for Employers
Ever since my son, Luke, was a wee lad, we dreamed of going on a major league baseball road trip together.
Baseball runs through our veins, so after years of dreaming, 2022 was our year. Since the beginning of this year,…
Sorry I have been away for a bit. Of all things, I’ve been taking some FMLA bonding leave to care for this beauty to the right! I am excited to report that our daughter, Maggie, joined our family just a few weeks back. And I’ve been smitten ever since.
There are a few things that…
Do you know what’s particularly oppressive about the FMLA? [You: Jeff, everything about the FMLA is oppressive!]
The requirement that an employer return an employee to the same or equivalent position at the end of FMLA leave.
Returning an employee to the same position is easy enough to grasp. The same is the…
The Family and Medical Leave Act and its regulations tell us that an employer must return an employee to the same or an equivalent position upon return from FMLA leave. Not surprisingly, I often am asked by clients, “What is an ‘equivalent’ position?”
On their face, the FMLA regulations seem to be a bit unforgiving…
Here’s a question from the client inquiry line this past week, and it pops up often enough that I figured I would share:
Q: An employee on maternity leave contacted us two months into leave that she will not be returning to work at the end of FMLA leave (which now is one month away). …
There must be something in the water. Over the past few months alone, I have reviewed a number of employers’ policies and correspondence regarding an employee’s return to work from a leave of absence. What has been surprising to me is the number of employer policies that require an employee to return from leave with…
On February 15, the Department of Labor published proposed regulations to the Family and Medical Leave Act in three specific areas: 1) Military Family Leave; 2) Flight Crew FMLA Eligibility; and 3) the manner in which employers calculate increments of FMLA leave. We summarized those changes here.
Public comments originally were due by April 16, 2012. …
According to Forbes and other news sources, Stephen Colbert has taken a leave of absence from his late-night comedy show, “The Colbert Report,” to attend to his ailing 91 year-old mother.
Only a true FMLA nerd would use this as an opportunity to explain a little-used, often forgotten rule under the Family and…
On January 30, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor announced proposed changes to Family and Medical Leave Act regulations (pdf) in three specific areas: 1) Military Family Leave; 2) Flight Crew FMLA Eligibility; and 3) the manner in which employers calculate increments of FMLA leave. Rules for the first two have been expected for some…
All too often, employers are criticized for blunders they could have avoided when taking disciplinary action against an employee with a medical condition. However, a recent federal appellate court decision provides a glowing example of how an employer got it right when it disciplined an employee upon her return from leave under the Family and…