Last night, my Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Today, the FMLA turns 25. Over the past 25 years, it is estimated that employee...

Miriam Valle worked as a ticket agent for Frank Martz Coach Company, until it fired her on January 27, 2016. Two weeks prior, she had adv...

It’s been six year since the Supreme Court decided, in Staub v. Proctor Hosp. , which validated the “cat’s paw” as a valid theory of liabi...

Actual firing Facebook photo Suppose you have an employee who takes FMLA leave for rotator-cuff surgery. Let’s say during said FMLA leav...

America remains the only industrialized nation that doesn’t mandate some level of paid maternity and/or family leave for employees. Meanwhil...

This is Loula, our vizsla. We love our dog. And, when we brought her home four summers ago, it was a great benefit to our family tha...

F-M-L-A: four letters that cast fear in the heart of any HR professional. So many rules to follow, so many ways to mess up and cost an emp...

Employers often tread too cautiously when handling employees on FMLA leave. Despite this caution, courts will to side with an employer tha...

Last week, the Department of Labor rolled out its final regulations mandating paid sick leave for the employees of federal contractors. Acco...

Last week, I suggested that the “FMLA is not a personnel-file eraser.” One does not return from an FMLA leave with a clean performance sl...

Earlier in the week, I discussed Tilley v. Kalamazoo , in which an employer took one on the chin for disciplining an employee for not doing ...

FMLA leave means leave . That is, an employee exercising rights under the FMLA to take protected time-off from work must be relieved of th...

I read with great interest the following story in the New York Post , entitled, “I want all the perks of maternity leave — without having ...

Since I recently cut a check to the IRS for the balance due on my taxes, I thought I’d take today’s space to review how the federal govern...

If you’ve ever held supervisor and manager training on any employment-law issue, you know the glazed-over expression of a group of individ...

Let’s say you have an employee approved for intermittent FMLA for migraine headaches. Let’s also say co-workers of said employees find her...

Earlier this week, an employee out on FMLA leave posed the following question to the Evil HR Lady : While I am out for surgery, I was inf...

Yesterday , we looked at the DOL’s recent guidance on joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Simultaneously with its FLSA guid...

Last week, I asked a simple question : should employer require salaried, exempt employees to take intermittent FMLA leave as unpaid leave, a...

Suppose you have a salaried, exempt employee. You pay that employee a fixed weekly salary, regardless of the number of hours he or she works...