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FMLA Insights
Court Determines that Employer’s FMLA Notice Sent by Email is Not Reliable (Sending Employer World into Tizzy)
By Jeff Nowak
We have a mini-FMLA crisis on our hands this week, and the courts are to blame. This issue involves the FMLA notices that employers send to employees, but more importantly,…
FMLA Insights
What Employers Can Learn from Physicians When It Comes to Administering the FMLA
By Jeff Nowak
Earlier this month, I took one for the team. And I survived. I had the privilege of presenting to a number of employers and health care providers at the annual…
FMLA Insights
Join Me for a Complimentary FMLA Webinar: Managing FMLA Red Flags and Staying Ahead of the Trends
By Jeff Nowak
It's Webinar Time! The year 2014 has ushered in a host of fascinating developments involving the FMLA. Courts across the country have issued critical decisions on an employee's notice of…
FMLA Insights
Don’t Be Tripped Up by Light Duty Obligations under the FMLA and ADA: A Discussion of Employer Best Practices
By Jeff Nowak
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of presenting on the FMLA and ADA reasonable accommodations at CUPA-HR's annual conference with my friend, Stan Kulesa from The Standard. We spent…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Juries are Unpredictable
I try to warn clients all the time that juries are fickle. A party can have the best evidence and still lose. One recent case illustrates that reality. In Alexander…
School Law
New FMLA Regulations for School Paraprofessionals
On May 12, 2014, the Department of Labor posted and made effective new regulations extending benefits equal to those under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to school…
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Top 10 in Law Blogs: EEOC at SCOTUS, Technology M&A, FMLA
In case you missed it, LXBN was covering the LMA-LA Continuing Marketing Education Conference down in Los Angeles, so be sure to swing by for video interviews and more. Total…
FMLA Insights
Employer Rejects Employee’s Fitness for Duty Certification, Faces FMLA Liability
By Jeff Nowak
The story is for all you hunt and peck typists out there. But its message is a lesson for all employers when it comes to returning your employee from FMLA…
Labor & Employment Insights
Requiring Employees to Work on Maternity Leave Could Interfere with FMLA Rights
If an employee claims her employer interfered with her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), but she didn’t lose any salary or benefits, can she win her…
GT L&E Blog
Third Circuit Increases Liability for Employers Issuing Routine Mandatory FMLA Notices
By Greenberg Traurig, Greenberg Traurig
In an important decision, the Third Circuit recently held in Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc. that an employee’s sworn statement — and nothing more — that she did not receive…