Today has arrived.
Though several states beat Congress to the punch, as of today, employers are required under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) to provide reasonable accommodations to employees who are limited from working due to pregnancy and childbirth.
I provide an overview of the PWFA below, but first, please join me for a
Join me for my annual FMLA/ADA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge!
When: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time)
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Employers increasingly face situations where they are concerned about an employee’s mental health or physical ability to perform to perform the job. Stress
Join me for my annual FMLA/ADA webinar, which comes to you, as always, free of charge!
When: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time)
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Work-from-home requests were on the increase even before the pandemic. After having sent many of their employees home to work during the pandemic,
Recently, an email I received from a HR-related organization caught my eye.
The email was fashioned as a Q&A. One of its members posed a question that I’ve paraphrased here:
Our practice is to reach out to employees on FMLA leave once a month to check in and see how they are doing. So long
First came Pfizer. Then Moderna.
The COVID-19 vaccine is coming.
By the time you read this article, even more COVID-19 vaccines may very well be in the mix. But is a COVID-19 vaccine the antidote that brings much needed relief to workplaces across America?
Naturally, employers want to know: as employees return to work (whether
Employers across America are requiring their employees to wear face coverings or masks while at work.
At the same time, employers across America are dealing with employees who have a million excuses why they can’t wear a face covering at work. Many of these excuses aren’t valid.
Some are.
If an employee claims to have
Andy, the Director of Human Resources at one of my clients, called me last week. He was pretty distraught.
One of his employees, we’ll call him Tom, has been battling lung cancer, and he recently learned that the cancer has advanced to stage four. It’s clear that his days are numbered.
Tom has been a
One of the most difficult issues an HR professional or in-house employment counsel faces is how to deal with an employee who cannot return to work after FMLA leave expires. Is additional leave beyond 12 weeks required? The answer is almost always ‘yes.’ But how much leave are we obligated to provide? And what if
Do you know what happens when you maintain a policy or practice that requires an employee to return to work without restrictions or “100% healed”? You pay. A lot.
Just ask Brookdale Senior Living Communities. Brookdale employed Bernadine, who suffered from fibromyalgia. According to the EEOC, Brookdale refused Bernadine’s accommodation requests for a temporary modified
All across America this morning, pregnant employees are screaming out in muted shouts of joy and giving each other belly bumps.
Last year, I reported on the EEOC’s recent pregnancy discrimination guidance, which interpreted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act as requiring workplace accommodations for pregnant employees even if impairments suffered during pregnancy do not rise