Near the beginning of the pandemic, an employee requested unpaid leave to care for her two-year-old son—a child with a history of respiratory illness experiencing symptoms resembling…
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He got fired after threatening to complain to HR. Could that be retaliation?
…alcohol while riding as a passenger and in the workplace, and smoked marijuana in a company vehicle while making deliveries. Those extended lunches seem relatively trivial, don’t they? Well, yadda,…
She said the quiet part loud and the loud part, well, not at all.
…plaintiff did not inform that employee of her medical condition. Instead, she asked what documentation she needed to provide in expectation of a positive result. In her eventual ADA complaint…
How do you track FMLA when an employee takes leave during the week of Memorial Day?
If you’ve got an HR-compliance sweet tooth, here is your FMLA nerd candy. Your favorite employment law, the Family and Medical Leave Act, entitles eligible employees of covered…
Was she requesting Family and Medical Leave Act leave or pitching a television show?!?
…noted that “her message unambiguously discussed ongoing and future work with [the defendant]…So, if anything, [her] father’s medical needs, in her view, presented new work opportunities, not reasons for leave.”…
The public health emergency is over. So why is the EEOC issuing new COVID-19 guidance to employers?
…who to screen/test, for example. Treat employee medical information concerning long COVID confidential, just as you would other medical information. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most accommodations did not pose a…
There’s a new FMLA Poster
…that some of you are judging me right now. Anyway, I was over on the Workplace Posters portion of the site when I clicked on The Family and Medical Leave…
“I told you that I’ve never been disabled,” said the man who sued for disability discrimination.
…decision, the court highlighted that the plaintiff was not disabled under New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination and “has never been deemed disabled by a medical doctor.” The court also rejected…
Choose your words carefully when using noncompetition agreements
…night in which a company tried to enforce a three-year, thirty-mile noncompete against its former nurse practitioner that would prevent her from “provide[ing] services involving the medical field of allergy…
400,000 reasons not to have this pregnancy policy in your workplace
…written policy requiring pregnant employees to disclose their pregnancies (while not requiring other non-pregnant employees to disclose medical conditions). Plus, pregnant employees then allegedly had to submit to medical examinations…