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FMLA Abuse
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FMLA Insights
FMLA FAQ: How Long Can an Employer Rely on a Second or Third Opinion under the FMLA?
By Jeff Nowak
Q: We have become more aggressive on suspected cases of FMLA abuse and, as a result, we have sent a greater number of employees for second and third opinions after…
FMLA Insights
Facebook Pictures of Employee Socializing at Local Festival Drown Her FMLA Claims
By Jeff Nowak
Employers and fellow FMLA nerds, consider this an early holiday present: Courts are increasingly dismissing FMLA claims when they find that the employer has an honest belief that the employee…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Employee Abuse of FMLA Leave – What Really Matters?
By Troutman Pepper Locke's Labor + Employment Group
When an employee takes FMLA leave there is usually nothing to write home about. The employee requests leave properly, provides the required medical certification in a timely fashion, and returns…
FMLA Insights
Employer’s ‘Honest Suspicion’ of FMLA Abuse Enough to Dismiss FMLA Claims
By Jeff Nowak
had enough of its employees abusing FMLA leave, so it played the ultimate trump card -- the Company hired a private investigator to conduct surveillance on 35 employees who were suspected FMLA…
Labor & Employment Report
Intermittent FMLA Leave Abuse: Managing the Unmanageable (Part 2)
By Fiona W. Ong
This five-part series offers guidance to employers on addressing intermittent Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave abuse. There are options available to employers through the FMLA regulations, but also…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
Curbing FMLA Abuse: Policies Restricting an Employee’s Travel While on Paid Sick Leave
So your employee recently posted photos of herself lounging poolside with margarita in hand while out on FMLA leave. Can you do something more than just compliment her nice tan?…
FMLA Insights
Will Employers Soon Use GPS to Catch FMLA Abuse?
By Jeff Nowak
Earlier this week, the folks at the Texas Employment Law Update highlighted a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in which the high court will consider whether law enforcement's placement of…
Texas Employment Law Update
Using GPS Tracking Technology to Prove Intermittent FMLA Abuse?
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide next term whether it is law enforcement's warrantless placement of GPS devices on a suspect's vehicle amounts to an unlawful search or seizure in violation of…
Iowa Employment Law Blog
Weekly Web Roundup: November 6, 2009
Thanks to Molly DiBianca of the Delaware Employment Law Blog for including us in the 2009 list of Top Employment Law Blogs. One of the things I have most enjoyed…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
New FMLA Regulations May Be on the Way; Senator Dodd Expresses Concern
The New York Times reported late last week that the Department of Labor is considering new regulations to the Family and Medical Leave Act that would address concerns that employers…