Can handbook, poster create FMLA liability?
CCH - USA
Employees at both worksites were provided with copies of the company’s personnel policy handbook, which discussed FMLA rights and procedures. …
Efforts To Expand FMLA for Military Caregivers Are Complex
HR Magazine - Alexandria,VA,USA
Several different proposals have surfaced on expanding unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) [...]

How to get time off to have your baby
By workmashbob
The Family and Medical Leave (FMLA for all you civil servants) requires 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a variety of personal and family issues. I’ve outlined the most important aspects of the Act and how they relate to your situation. …

An employee may seek damages for any wages, salary, employment benefits or other compensation lost as a result of an FMLA violation. A court may award interest on the lost employment compensation as well as liquidated damages in an amount equal to the lost employment compensation. If an employee has not lost any [...]

Federal Court Affirms USPS FMLA Return-To-Work Policy
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reverses previous decision in Harrell vs. USPS - USPS required employees who had taken leave for more than 21 days to submit much more information than a doctor’s note in order to return to work. Rodney Harrell refused to provide the [...]

Sixth Circuit: FMLA Does Not Cover Care For Adult Child With …
By Office of Priscilla Hapner(Office of Priscilla Hapner)
On September 28, 2007, the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of an employer and dismissal of the FMLA claims of a former employee. Novak v. MetroHealth Medical Center, No. 06-3036 (6th [...]

FMLA Waivers on Their Way to Supreme Court?
By laborprof lpb
The good people at the SCOTUSblog not only do a fabulous job keeping every one current on everything US Supreme Court, but they also like to get their hands dirty with actual cases. The latest: The following post was written…
FMLA covers Leave to Provide Psychological Comfort
July [...]

Petition Explores Waivers of FMLA Rights
By SCOTUSblog
The following post was written by Patricia Millett, co-chair of Akin Gump‚s Supreme Court practice. On Monday, we filed this cert petition which presents a question on which the Fourth Circuit has broken ranks with both the Fifth …
IWF Policy Brief: FMLA
By info@iwf.org (Allison Kasic)
Specifically, she proposed changing [...]

In Wysong v. The Dow Chemical Co., — F.3d —-, 2007 WL 2819880 (C.A.6 (Ohio)), 12 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1601, the Sixth Circuit further defined the fifth element of an FMLA interference claim, holding that a showing that the employer somehow unlawfully used FMLA leave against an employee would satisfy this element of [...]

FMLA law - Iraq, Healthcare and … Paid Family Leave?
By Rebel Dad(Rebel Dad)
What Hillary has proposed, if enacted, would certainly be the best thing to happen to parents, legislatively, since FMLA was passed way back when. Though I am wary of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I have to wonder if this could [...]

FMLA Law - Hillary Clinton’s Agenda for Working Families
By elizabeth
Extend the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to cover 13 million additional American workers and guarantee workers at least 7 paid sick days per year; * Promote model workplaces with grants to support new workplace flexibility programs …
FMLA law - returning to work after FMLA leave
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