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An employee who was reassigned to a new position after taking medical leave and then quickly laid off was not the victim of an “elaborate sham,” as he alleged, a federal appeals court has determined.
School is almost over and that means pretty soon your employees will start taking their vacations. However, American’s are taking less vacation than ever.
Maryland’s governor has vetoed a bill that mandates paid sick leave for workers in the state starting January 1, 2018—but it’s not necessarily dead.
While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires a wide array of accommodations for workers with disabilities, there are a few things that generally are not required because they fail the law’s “reasonableness” test. Among those are a promotion and a new supervisor.
Is unconscious bias impacting international assignment opportunities in your organization? We all have unconscious biases in one form or another—they are impossible to consistently avoid.
An employee who accrued more than 7 weeks’ worth of unscheduled absences during her 50-week probationary period was not entitled to job protection under federal disability law, an appeals court has ruled.
Here we present a leave-related workplace scenario—inspired by an actual court case—that’s intended to help HR professionals better understand an employer’s responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In this scenario, when an employee went on leave, her coworkers learned that she was not executing important administrative tasks related to her position. Based […]
Question: If an employee has exhausted 12 weeks of FMLA for himself in the calendar year but now has a legal spouse with a serious health condition, can he take an additional 12 weeks?
Many employers are seeing an increase in employees requesting time off to care for their aging parents. Because that trend is likely to continue, you should be prepared to manage such requests, particularly when the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) applies.
Most Massachusetts employers are required by law to provide “meal breaks” for their employees. However, in many industries, it isn’t always feasible for employees to leave the premises during lunch or even to stop working while they’re eating. If employees work through their meal breaks, must they be paid for that time? What if they […]