“Damn you, Department of Labor! It’s 12:00:01 on March 8, 2013. I keep refreshing this stupid site and nothing is happening! I NEED FORMS!!!!” — Absolutely no one in HR. Actually, the forms have been available for some time now, slacker. Forms WH-380-E Certification of Health Care Provider for Employee’s…
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employees are eligible for leave if they have worked for their employer at least 12 months, at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles. Consequently,…
Yesterday, we addressed (here) the possibility of Congress taking up paid sick leave shortly. Now, there is word that the Parental Bereavement Act, last considered in 2011 as an amendment to the Family and Medical Leave Act, is back on the table. Last week, in this press release, Senator Jon…
Coming soon, so says Senator Tom Harkin here. Known as the “Healthy Families Act,” this bill was introduced in the House in 2009, and again in both the House and Senate in 2011, but never got much traction. But now, in addition to Senator Harkin, former President Bill Clinton is stumping…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com I have three kids, ages three and under. So a vacation for me is the half hour of quiet time I get in the bathroom every morning. It’s not like the old days. I remember Spring Break ’97 in the Bahamas. Sun, beach, water sports, and a couple…
Before going any further, allow me to wish a Happy Belated 20th Birthday to the Family and Medical Leave Act. What can I say? I plumb forgot. To atone, I got Fammy Med a Walkman. (Kids, that’s what we used to listen to music in 1993. It doesn’t walk and…
Three easy ways to tackle FMLA issues, without having to call someone like me. I’ll explain after the jump… * * * An employee gets open-heart surgery, but no FMLA. I was reading this case the other day about an employee who needed to take time off to have open-heart…
*Do I need a disclaimer? Do I? What a year for The Employer Handbook in 2012! I’m most pleased that, in our second year of existence, readership more than doubled. Although, sadly, the one 2011 reader I had from Papua New Guinea never returned in 2012. I hope she is…
Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s one of my fave employment lawyers from Twitter, Chuck Lawson. Chuck is a member of the Labor and Employment group at Grant Konvalinka & Harrison, P.C., where he specializes in all phases of the employer-employee relationship, including wage and…
That’s right folks. It’s time for another edition of “Fact or Fiction” a/k/a “Quick Answers to Quick Questions” a/k/a QATQQ f/k/a “I don’t feel like writing a long blog post.” The Family and Medical Leave Act permits employees to take leave on an intermittent basis or to work a reduced…