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When an Employer Provides More Parental Leave to Mom than Dad, is this Gender Discrimination?

By Jeff Nowak on May 19, 2013
Posted in Medical Certification

I received a ton of feedback on last week’s blog post, which discussed Yahoo’s new parental leave policy and its FMLA implications.  Much of the feedback related to Yahoo’s decision to provide 16 weeks of paid maternity leave to female employees and 8 weeks of paid paternity leave to male employees.  Some wondered whether such…

FMLA FAQ: When Employee on FMLA Leave Indicates They Will Not Return From FMLA Leave, What Should an Employer Do?

By Jeff Nowak on June 22, 2012
Posted in FMLA FAQs, Reinstatement
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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). …

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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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