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Family and Medical Leave Act
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Minnesota Employer
What is FMLA Estoppel?
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), an employer may be estopped from denying an employee’s entitlement to leave under certain circumstances if the doctrine of FMLA estoppel applies. FMLA estoppel…
FMLA Insights
Employees Take Note: Showing Pictures of Your Boyfriend’s Privates Will Doom Your FMLA Lawsuit (or Any Other Lawsuit)
By Jeff Nowak
Before you read this post, cover your eyes! Cynthia Adams was a registered hospice nurse for Fayette Home Care and Hospice. According to one of her hospice patients, Adams apparently showed…
FMLA Insights
Happy Thanksgiving from FMLA Insights!
By Jeff Nowak
This Thanksgiving, I have much to be thankful for: a wonderful family and friends, a great job, good health, loyal readers. The economy of 2011 and beyond continues to be challenging for employers, but there still is…
Employment Law Matters
Alleged comments by HR director sufficient to defeat company’s motion for summary judgment.
Remarks by a law firm’s human resources director could be “direct evidence” of pregnancy discrimination and violation of the FMLA, according to the 7th U.S. District Court of Appeals. According…
FMLA Insights
Manager’s Loose Lips Sinks Employer’s Chances of Dismissing FMLA Claim
By Jeff Nowak
When making difficult decisions about eliminating jobs, senior management surely may disagree as to "who" is cut and how it's done. However, after the decision is made, it is critical that management…
FMLA Insights
Calculating FMLA Leave for Holidays, Breaks and Plant Shut Downs
By Jeff Nowak
'Tis the season already, as I am starting to receive telephone calls from employers with questions about how they calculate an employee's FMLA leave during a holiday week or when the employer…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Exacerbation, Causation and Retaliation under the FMLA
Whether a supervisor mistreated the plaintiff after he returned from his second leave of absence, causing him to need a third leave, is irrelevant to his FMLA retaliation claim because…
FMLA Insights
Supervisor’s Inadvisable Email Creates Basis for FMLA Claim
By Jeff Nowak
File this in your "Don't Do This When Conducting a RIF" folder. As highlighted by the folks at the Atlanta Employment Lawyer Blog, employers should be wary of eliminating the…
Employment Law Matters
Supervisor’s ill-considered e-mail forms the basis of an FMLA lawsuit.
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) prohibits employers from interfering with an employee’s right to take leave for which that employee is eligible under the Act. Recently, the 7th…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Talk of the LexBlog Network: Jeff Nowak of FMLA Insights
If success in legal blogging were measured by the author's ability connect with and relate to readers, Jeff Nowak's FMLA Insights would be the standard. Employing techniques that resonate with…