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…just over a month of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. While on leave, a Flannery administrator contacted Plaintiff and asked that she return to work before her…
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EEOC: Bar claimed males like their Sunday servers sans embryo
…behind the bar, instead of in your face distracting you from watching the Arizona Cardinals, losers of eight in a row. Given that it’s Football Sunday, we even raised the…
Employment Law Blog Carnival: Hollywood Casting Call Edition
…Donna Ballman writes, “Legal Marijuana Use Can Still Get You Fired.” (Even for your cataracts). Next is the movie with what is shaping up to be the…
Facebook pics of employee boozing at a festival ruin her FMLA claim
…a significant amount of after-the-fact medical evidence (such as the deposition of her treating physician) in trying to cast Advantage’s justification as pretextual, Advantage’s investigation was adequate and turned in…
An HR guide to the workplace implications of Hurricane Sandy
I’m punching out this post on Sunday night, from my home in Philadelphia, before the brunt of Hurricane Sandy strikes. Like many of you, I’m locked, stocked, and…
Fact or Fiction: FMLA covers a tummy-tuck procedure
…post.” An employee is eligible for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act if the employee has “a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the…
What happens in Vegas, becomes an FMLA claim
…and Medical Leave Act. And, you know what? She may be right. I’ll tell you why after the jump… * * * In January 2008, Ballard and her…
What one employment-law question would you ask Mitt Romney?
…Romney: As you know, the Family Medical and Leave Act provides job-security protections for qualifying employees with serious health conditions, loved ones with serious health conditions, or who…
Is “casual conversation” of a parent’s health enough to trigger FMLA?
…enough to put the employer on notice — at least initially — that the employee needs leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for a parent with…
FMLA may require you to adjust employee performance standards
I’m back, jack. And I have some hella-tough shoes to fill, following Janette Levey Frisch‘s killer two-part guest-blogger series on the interplay between the Family and Medical Leave…