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Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 11/18/08
There was absolutely no shortage of interesting posts today with quality content on everything ranging from the Employee Free Choice Act to Mark Cuban to new FMLA regulations. Taxpayers To…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
New FMLA Regulations – What Employers Need to Know – Part I
As I reported on Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor has released final regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The regulations (which you can dowload here) become…
Louisiana Law Blog
Department of Labor Issues New Family and Medical Leave Act Regulations
The U.S. Department of Labor has released the new Family and Medical Leave Act regulations. The new regulations will become effective January 16, 2009. The DOL issued its proposed new…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
New Labor Dept. Regs on FMLA Leave To Be Released Monday
The Associated Press (through this The Hartford Business Journal article) is reporting that the final revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act regulations are to be released on Monday (November…
Employment Law Matters
“Regarded as disabled” claim requires exclusion from range of jobs.
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that an employer’s failure to rehire an individual after layoff, based on the employee’s opiate-based prescription medication, did not violate the ADA. However, in an…
Employer Law Report
Recent Sixth Circuit Decision Authorizes Creative Solution to Address Runaway Intermittent Leave
By Brian Hall
Many employers have been pulling their hair out attempting to address runaway intermittent leave under the FMLA. The Sixth Circuit's decision in Davis v. Michigan Bell authorizes one creative solution…
Labor Law Prof Blog
FMLA Technicalities Hurt Employers Too
Earlier this week, I posted about an employee who missed being eligible for FMLA leave by 12 minutes of work in the prior twelve months. Via BNA Highlights comes Spencer…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Employee Misses FMLA Coverage Threshold by 12 Minutes
Our own Paul Secunda sent me the BNA report on this FMLA case. It's a doozy. Late last week, the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion in Pirant v. U.S. Postal…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Costs and Benefits of the FMLA
On the heels of Bird & Knopf's surprising finding that the costs of disability laws are much higher than expected comes a new study by Jeffrey Eisenach (Criterion Economics; adjunct…
Labor Law Prof Blog
I Spy: FMLA Claims and Employer Surveillance
The National Law Journal has a story on employers' increasing use of surveillance against employees who are out on FMLA leave. According to the NLJ:A growing number of employers are…