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California Employment Law Update
Employee Entitled To New Trial On Disability Claim
By Tony Oncidi
Gambini v. Total Renal Care, Inc., 2007 WL 686350 (9th Cir. Mar. 8, 2007) Stephanie Gambini sued her former employer, Total Renal Care, Inc., d/b/a DaVita, Inc., alleging that it…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Paid FMLA Leave On The Way?
It might be according to this story from HR.BLR.com:SenatorChris Dodd of Connecticut [left] says he will propose legislation that wouldgive eligible employees at least 6 weeks of paid leave to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Calculating the One Year Threshold for FMLA Purposes
Among the threshold requirements for an employee to be covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is that the employee must have been employed for at least one…
Labor Law Prof Blog
DOL Asks for Comment on FMLA
Now in its 13th year of existence, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has wrought important changes in the American workplace. Now, with an eye to improving the law…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently-Published Scholarship: The Labor Lawyer
Rod M. Fliegel (top left) & Justin T. Curley (top center), Evaluating Eligibility for FMLA Leave: Federal Case Law Underscores The Need For Informed Decision Making, p. 1.Robert Rachal (top…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Geography and the FMLA
Every semester in my Employer-Employee Relations class, we focus on that provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that requires a covered employer to have 50 employees within…
California Employment Law Update
Court Partially Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging Violation Of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
By Tony Oncidi
Romaneck v. Deutsche Asset Mgmt., 2006 WL 2385237 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 17, 2006) Lawrence Romaneck worked as the Director of Sales for Deutsche Asset Management's West Region from 1996 to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Third Circuit Decides FMLA Bonus Issue of First Impression
NewsDash from PlanSponsor.com has the skinny this morning on an interesting FMLA issue of first impression decided by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals concerning bonuses:In what it described as…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Interesting Case on Successors-in-Interest Under FMLA
Rosario Vega Lynn of the New Mexico Labor and Employment Law Blog sent this interesting post dealing with a novel issue under federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) law:In…
Louisiana Law Blog
5TH CIRCUIT RECOGNIZES THAT AN EMPLOYER’S PLACEMENT OF AN EMPLOYEE ON LEAVE CAN RESULT IN “INVOLUNTARY” FMLA LEAVE IF…
By Kean Miller
It is common for an employer to require an employee to provide a medical release or to submit to a medical examination before returning to work after a sickness or…