…placement of two stents in his heart. The employee’s doctor placed him on five weeks of medical leave to recuperate from the heart attack and surgery. The employee informed the…
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You can’t fire an employee while on FMLA leave. Except when you can.
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Yesterday, I was reading this case about a woman who was fired while taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. She later sued, claiming…
A company allegedly fired a woman because she got an abortion. But, is that illegal?
…1964, prohibits employers from taking adverse employment actions “because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.” Although, the PDA does not “preclude an employer from…
You just approved FMLA leave for an ineligible employee. What now?
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/oops-reminder-post-note-sticker-1432954/) You just approved leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act for your employee so that she can attend to her sick mother who is…
Did you miss yesterday’s #NextChat on Managing the Challenges of Leave Under the FMLA and ADA?
Image Credit: SHRM.org Don’t worry about it. SHRM has you covered with a full recap, which saves my dainty blogging fingers from doing a lot of typing today….
For real this time, the EEO-1 deadline is September 30, 2019. Seriously
…click over here to learn more about this Roundtable Webinar: Opioids and Marijuana: Coping with a Workplace Quagmire in which I am participating next month on May 22, 2019, from…
The readers have three follow-up ADA questions about job applications. Let’s answer them.
…a medical questionnaire that inquired about certain medical conditions, whether the employee had an impairment or disability, and whether the employee had previous surgery or received a permanent disability rating….
If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA problems.
…by the EEOC …, [the Companies] required employees to complete a Medical Questionnaire that contained unlawful medical inquiries that were not job related nor required by business necessity. The EEOC…
NYC is going to ban pre-employment marijuana drug screening. How do you feel about that?
…require any job candidate to submit to testing for the presence of any tetrahydrocannabinols or marijuana in such prospective employee’s system as a condition of employment. Mayor Bill de Blasio…
Looks can be deceiving. Morbid obesity isn’t necessarily a disability.
…a medical exam every two years. Well, the plaintiff routinely passed his medical exams and received awards from his employer, notwithstanding that we weighed between 500 and 600 pounds. The…