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Employer Law Report
Don’t Play Fast and Loose with FMLA rights!
Concluding that the employer’s failure to notify a pregnant employee of her FMLA rights and to reinstate her to her former position or any other equivalent position after taking leave…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Strategies for Dealing with FMLA Abuse Webinar – Use TS Discount!
By Troutman Pepper Locke's Labor + Employment Group
Join Troutman Sanders' Labor & Employment Partner, Evan Pontz, and co-presenter, Rebecca Shanlever of Hall, Arbery, Gilligan, Roberts & Shanlever as they repeat the webinar: Strategies For Dealing With FMLA…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
What Happens At Home When Your Employee Takes FMLA Leave in Vegas?
Are you willing to bet that your FMLA practices are in compliance with the law? One company recently found out that not all trips to Las Vegas are created equal. …
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Four reasons Google+ is important for blogging lawyers
Google+ is apt to be written off as a social media ghost town by blogging lawyers. Who could blame them looking at the numbers alone. From New York Times technology…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
Gone Fishin’ on FMLA
If you are well enough to fish in fishing tournaments, you are well enough to come to work, right? Most employers, I suspect, would agree with that view and would…
FMLA Insights
ABA’s Summary of 2013 FMLA Cases a Critical Resource for Employers, Attorneys
By Jeff Nowak
Calling all FMLA nerds! You'll want to read this. Every February, the American Bar Association's Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee publishes a comprehensive report of significant FMLA decisions handed down…
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
Employment Law IQ: FMLA Interference – What Would You Do?
Continuing in our series to test your employment law IQ, this week we will focus on FMLA requests often received in HR offices. Scenario: Henry Fixit worked as a maintenance…
Disability, Leave & Health Management Blog
This FMLA Road to Certiorari Goes Through Vegas
The Supreme Court of the United States agrees to hear---“grants certiorari”—very few cases. Because of this, the maxim has developed that ““it’s a long, long way to certiorari,” a variation…
Employment Discrimination Report
Update: 7th Circuit Confirms that What Happens in Vegas Justifies FMLA Leave
On December 10, 2012, we reported on a Northern District of Illinois case that held that the Family and Medical Leave Act may have covered an employee's vacation to Las Vegas with…
FMLA Insights
FMLA FAQ: Can General Aches and Pains Support the Need for FMLA Leave?
By Jeff Nowak
I just returned from Disney World, a trip that had me chasing my kids (ages 8, 6 and 4) for days on end. So, I'm tired. And I ache. My…