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According to FMLASource, employee requests for Family and Medical Leave Act leave rose over 10% in 2010. The top reasons for FMLA absences: 1. personal illness/injury, 2. caring for a child, and 3. caring for an elderly relative With a rise in claims coupled with recent amendments to the FMLA, now…

You operate a company that provides mall security. And one of your security guards posts a video on YouTube of a female mall employee falling into a fountain while she is texting. You should already have a social media policy. But, even if you don’t, you know what to do, right? I know.…

What do a foot of snow and a compassionate employer have in common? Find out after the jump. * * * We got over a foot of snow yesterday. Not that light and fluffy snow. No, what we had was break-your-back-shoveling snow. And my job, when it snows, is to…

Hi there, Pennsylvania employers. Do you have employees that remind you of the sleeping gentleman in the picture to the right? After the jump, read about a local employee who was fired after getting caught sleeping on the job four times, and still successfully obtained unemployment compensation benefits! The case…

The United States Supreme Court today in Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP ruled that an employer violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act if it takes action against an employee who is in the same “zone of interest” as another employee who files a Charge of Discrimination with…

Last month, the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued a request for public comments on its preliminary interpretations of a new provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that requires employers to provide nursing mothers with reasonable break time and a private space for expressing breast…

I read The Employer Handbook every day. That’ll be $10.”   A federal court has allowed a former prostitute to proceed with claims that her subsequent employer sexually harassed her. More about this defense counsel’s wet dream, after the jump. * * * DigiCut Systems hired Susan Terry in July…

This story that I wrote with my Dilworth Paxson LLP colleague, David Laigaie, the Chair of Dilworth’s Corporate Investigation/White Collar Group, recently appeared in The Legal Intelligencer. If you operate a business in Pennsylvania and you have trade secrets, employees with non-solicitation agreements, or non-competition agreements, then take a few…

The National Labor Relations Board is concerned that your employees don’t know how to form a union. And the Board wants YOU to tell them how to do it. Don’t believe me? Read all about it after the jump. According to a recent press release from the NLRB: *cue the…