Summary of new FMLA Regulations: Military Family Leave
Yesterday, I examined 10 key changes in the new FMLA regulations to the legacy FMLA provisions . Today, I’ll break down the new regulations’...
Summary of new FMLA Regulations: 10 Key Changes
By Jon Hyman
On Monday, November 17, 2008, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule to implement the first-ever amendments to the Family an...
Do you know? Compensation for travel time
By Jon Hyman
Do you have employees that travel for work? Do you know that only certain travel time may be considered compensable and therefore paid for? ...
The swift hand of justice
By Jon Hyman
Next time you consider whether you really want to litigate a case, consider the following case study. On Friday, I reported about a case i...
ALERT: New FMLA regulations to be published Monday
By Jon Hyman
The title says it all. Once I've had a chance to digest the new regs (they're over 700 pages) I'll have more to say.
WIRTW #56
By Jon Hyman
The Employee Free Choice Act remains the hot labor and employment law topic. The stat of the week comes courtesy of the Delaware Employmen...
8 common employee handbook mistakes, and how to avoid them
By Jon Hyman
HR Legal News provides a list of its top common mistakes in employee handbooks. The following discusses some of the list, offers some tips ...
“Laying the smackdown” is not an adverse employment action
By Jon Hyman
An adverse employment action in a discrimination case is an action by an employer that effects a significant change in one’s employment stat...
Do you know? Preservation of personnel files
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? In Ohio, employers should preserve personnel files for six years after an employee leaves an organization. Under Ohio Revised ...
Risks abound for businesses considering unpaid time off to save costs
By Jon Hyman
Workforce Management and SlashGear both report that Dell is encouraging its employees to take an unpaid week off as a means to cut costs a...
WIRTW #55
By Jon Hyman
It only seems fitting to begin this week with a small roundup of some of the blog posts I’ve tagged about the election: Pennsylvania La...
Religious accommodation for prayer becomes hot issue
By Jon Hyman
As I've written before, Title VII requires employers to reasonably accommodate an employee whose sincerely held religious belief, practi...
President Obama
By Jon Hyman
A lot of ink has been spilled already, with tons more to come, about just how truly historic last night was. Given our country’s history, on...
Do you know? The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 30
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? The Pregnancy Discrimination Act turned 30 years old last week. The PDA outlawed employment discrimination on the basis of “pre...
Court sanctions employee for perjury
By Jon Hyman
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a client ask me, “I thought perjury is illegal. How can she lie during her deposition like that?” W...
WIRTW #54
By Jon Hyman
As I celebrate the Phillies first World Series title in 28 years, and Philly’s first title in any of the major sports in 25 years (believe i...
More on smoking as a disability
By Jon Hyman
In commenting on my post on workplace smoking bans from earlier this week, Michael Moore at the Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog suggests ...
New FMLA regulations are on their way
By Jon Hyman
On October 20, the Department of Labor forwarded its final draft of new Family and Medical Leave Act regulations to the Office of Management...
Do you know? Time off to vote on election day
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? Ohio law requires that employers provide all employees a reasonable amount of time off to vote on election day. According to O....
Are there legal risks with smoking bans?
By Jon Hyman
I had the privilege of speaking last week at the COSE 2008 Small Business Conference . I received a question on the legality of workplace po...