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Will Marco Rubio’s new federal paid-leave legislation be the one to emerge from the pack?
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Can you make someone who only wants intermittent FMLA take continuous leave instead?
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I’ll wait patiently while you grab your pearls for clutching.
HR lessons from Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and ABC’s immediate cancellation of her show
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On the same day that Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores to train its employees on implicit bias (full curriculum here), an outspoken Hollywood celebrity stole the headlines with an explicitly-racist tweet. Continue reading
Fore-get it! Court slices plaintiff’s FMLA claim based on Facebook pics of him at a golf course
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Neither did lying about sleeping at work despite photographic evidence to the contrary.
Filed under: “WTH Dude!”
Dear Handbook: Does the FLSA require that non-exempt employees get paid for 16-minutes of intermittent FMLA leave?
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We’re gonna try a new feature here at The Employer Handbook.
It’s where I take a new U.S. Department of Labor Opinion Letter and tweak it as if someone is asking me for my opinion on the precise legal issue on which the DOL is being asked to opine, but with slightly different facts.
It can’t miss. Continue reading
Very special FMLA/ADA greetings from Huntsville, Alabama
I took this picture. Not bad, eh?
Filed under: “Didn’t think I’d be saying that in 2018.”
But, it’s all good.
I am grateful to Ben Eubanks and the Northern Alabama Chapter of Society for Human Resource Management for this opportunity to debut my new and improved “My Employees Can Miss How Much Work?!? Managing the Challenges of Leave Under the FMLA and ADA?” to a fantastic audience of HR professionals in Huntsville, AL today.
From the archives: “How do you handle FMLA and FLSA for a snow day office closure?”
Yes, those are two of my children. (Not pictured: “Dad of the Year” Trophy)
A little over two years ago, I blogged here about how the Fair Labor Standards Act and Family and Medical Leave Act may impact your business if it closes for a day due to inclement weather. Now that I work “in the cloud,” this doesn’t impact me. Heck, I’m probably three Starbucks Flat Whites in by the time you’re reading this.
And thank god for the blazing-fast wi-fi here. I can’t get over the clarity on the live feed of my kids shoveling the driveway. With the extra muscles and endurance they’ve added in the past few years, if I don’t see pavement by the time I get home…
Anyway, here’s the blog post. Continue reading
No one ever said that this FMLA stuff would be easy.
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Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, an eligible employee is entitled to take up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave in a 12-month period.
So, what happens if an employee exhausts 12 weeks of leave and doesn’t return to work on the next working day? Firing that employee wouldn’t violate the FMLA would it?
Or, could it? Continue reading
What might federal paid family leave look like? (I’ll give you a sneak peak.)
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Sorry, Eagles fans. It doesn’t cover taking the fam to today’s parade.
(I’ll post some pics tomorrow). Continue reading