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Bookmark This: Seven Resources to Answer Some of Your Employment Questions
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Oh, I’ve got your hookup today. Continue reading
I’ve got links to the new FMLA forms from the U.S. Department of Labor
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Meet the new forms; same as the old forms. Continue reading
Oh, look. It’s DOL guidance on FMLA and no-fault attendance policies
Stardate August 29, 2018. I found a 4G network and am typing this blog post at sea before I lose the network. Stay with me Verizon!
How confident are you that your attendance policy complies with the FMLA? If it’s anything less than, “Damn right it does,” check out this new Opinion Letter from the DOL on the interplay between FMLA and no-fault attendance policies.
With luck, I’ll be back tomorrow.
Do organ donors qualify for FMLA leave?
Yep. So says the DOL in a brand new Opinion Letter released this week. No go win that blue pie piece in the Trivial Pursuit – HR Compliance Edition.
PS – Day Three at sea and the WiFi on the cruise ship remains poor. I’m trying unionize the crew to demand better bandwidth. In the meantime, I’m blogging from my cell phone because I must really like you folks.
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.
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