Raise your hand if you’re neck deep in COVID-19 vaccine exemption requests. [Yeah, I get it, you’re neck deep, so you can’t raise your hand.]
My friends, this exemption onslaught will only get more intense as we await OSHA’s Emergency
Continue Reading If an Employee Requests an Exemption from the COVID-19 Vaccine, Can an Employer Lawfully Place the Employee on a Leave of Absence?
Everyone one of us has been there.
Your employee, Johnny, takes a leave of absence because he stubbed his toe at work, resulting in a lengthy worker’s compensation absence. For one reason or another, Johnny’s one week leave of absence
Continue Reading What’s an Employer To Do When It Realizes It Failed to Designate FMLA Leave?
This one is to get the blood flowing for you hard-core FMLA nerds out there, cause it’s quickly going to get in the leave of absence weeds.
With the Labor Day holiday approaching, let’s discuss how an employer should calculate
Continue Reading When an Employee Takes FMLA Leave During a Holiday Week, How Much FMLA Leave is Actually Taken?
Matt was a correction officer for the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders, which as an aside, sounds like something straight out of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Before I digress further, Matt served as one of the caretakers
Continue Reading Can an Employer Discipline an Employee for Excessive FMLA-Related Absences Before Requesting Recertification? The Simple Answer is NO.
Ed was an autoworker who dealt with apparent bouts of depression for which he sought intermittent FMLA leave. But he also had fistfuls of unexcused absences, so much so that he stood on the precipice of termination — one attendance
Continue Reading When Your Employee Calls off Sick with “Flare-Ups,” Is This Sufficient Notice of the Need for FMLA Leave?
The FMLA was enacted in 1993, way back when fax machines had just begun ruling the world and we were only learning how to send an email to a friend. When the law was passed, FMLA didn’t contemplate a remote
Continue Reading What Federal and State Leave Laws Apply to Your Remote Employee?
Christmas in July might just exist after all!
Give yourself and your loved ones the gift of three riveting — and, more importantly, free — webinars throughout the month of July that will tackle all things FMLA, ADA and paid
Continue Reading A Trifecta of Free Webinars in July: Brush Up on FMLA Misuse, PFML Developments, and ADA/Return to Work Issues
I’ve often wondered — in fact, even discussed with clients — whether an employer could safely approve an employee’s FMLA-related absence and discipline the employee because he failed to timely report the absence.
I’ve theorized that an employer could pull
Continue Reading Can an Employer Grant FMLA Leave, but Also Discipline an Employee for Failing to Timely Report the Absence?
While nearly all of you are reading up on the CDC’s latest guidance allowing vaccinated folks to shed their masks inside and out, we’re getting back to the basics here on the FMLA Insights blog.
A few of my
Continue Reading Back to the FMLA Basics: When Does an Employee Recoup FMLA Leave in a New FMLA Year?
If you find yourself mired in FMLA abuse, take comfort in this real-life husband and wife leave escapade.
Location: City of Taipei, Taiwan, which maintains a law in which eight days of paid leave is provided to newlyweds. How nice.
Continue Reading What Can Taipei, Taiwan Teach Us About FMLA Abuse? Here Are Ten Ways to Combative the Misuse of FMLA Leave as Summer Nears
