We have been sitting on the edge of our seat [ok, perhaps I’m on the seat alone] as we await the Department of Labor’s anticipated regulations interpreting how the Supreme Court’s DOMA decision impacts the definition of “spouse” under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
As you may recall, I predicted earlier this
Of course, this kind of stuff happens while I’m on vacation and away from my computer. Last week, the Wall Street Journal created a bit of an uproar when it reported that the Department of Labor had just issued “regulatory guidance to affirm that same-sex married couples can take a leave from their jobs to care
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nless you’ve been securely wedged under a rock over the past 24 hours, you know that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had established a federal definition of marriage as a legal union only between one man and one woman.
Yesterday, as Justice Anthony Kennedy