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My FMLA Blog Turns 10 Today! A Look at the Best and Worst of the FMLA in 10 Years of Writing

By Jeff Nowak on May 26, 2020
Posted in FMLA

Today, my little FMLA blog turns 10 years old.

Ten years ago, at a time when very few people knew what the heck a “blog” was, including me, I took a chance that HR and leave of absence professionals and attorneys might need some help answering the difficult, yet common issues they faced when administering…

When You Don’t Train Your Managers on the FMLA, You’re Begging for This Kind of Smackdown

By Jeff Nowak on October 19, 2017
Posted in Court Decisions, Notice

When a manager learns that one of his employees is in the hospital for several days, that’s almost always enough information for the employer to have an inkling that the employee may need FMLA leave.

But one employer didn’t think so. And the penalty for its mistake was costly. Let me explain.

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Jeff Nowak is a shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C., the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing employers. Jeff has two decades of experience advising and litigating on behalf of employers on a wide range of complex employment law matters and is a recognized leader on FMLA and ADA issues, helping employers develop comprehensive strategies to achieve compliance with employee leave and accommodation issues.

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