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By Shane Smith, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link An employee with severe shoulder pain sought and received from his employer leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The…
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Five wage and hour goodies for your business. Trust me. This won’t be weird at all.
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay You know that dream? The one where the U.S. Department of Labor shows up on a Sunday to conduct a surprise wage-and-hour audit…
Get your damn story straight if you’re going to fire someone who just returned from medical leave.
…plaintiff. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant fired him in retaliation for taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act and in violation of the Americans with Disabilities…
READ THIS: “Marijuana and the Workplace: It’s Complicated”
state-by-state laws governing medical and recreational marijuana use; CBDs and the “ABCs of THC”; Statistics on workplace drug testing; Considerations for drug testing potential new hires; and The changing legal…
Vacation Thread: It’s the FMLA PowerPoint that will have your HR-compliance feet doing a happy dance
…is trying not to melt in the Orlando sun, I’ll leave links to those E-Tools here elaws Employee/Employer Advisor Family and Medical Leave Act (Microsoft PowerPoint) Study up! Quiz…
Vacation Thread: The Zamboni-Drivin’ Disability-Discriminatin’ Lawsuit
…violation? Well, apparently, the plaintiff was injured on the job in early 2015. He returned to work in May with certain medical restrictions, including the requirement that he work sitting…
Vacation Thread: It’s another FMLA warning about your dookie ‘no-fault’ attendance policy
…depending on the circumstances Absences for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) do not accrue points. Progressive discipline is imposed at various thresholds along the point system,…
FMLA forms may be changing soon. What will they say? How will HR cope? #breathe
…up with some guidance on whether an employee may take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to discuss a child’s special education needs at school. (The answer is…
DOL: An employee may take FMLA leave to discuss a child’s special education needs at school.
…the leave is foreseeable, you can insist on 30 days’ advance notice. Either way, the employee must submit a completed medical certification. So, HR, when someone comes in requesting FMLA…
SCOOP! PA businesses may have to allow employees to use medical marijuana outside of work
Image Credit: Pixabay.com This definitely caught me flat-footed. An implied duty to accommodate? I think not. Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law specifically states that no employer must “make any accommodation…