Articles Posted in Family and Medical Leave

FMLA: Calculate holiday leave correctly

November 25, 2010 | by Eric B. Meyer

FMLA Insights has a very timely post about how to calculate FMLA leave around the holidays.

I’ll summarize it for you after the jump.
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Third Circuit Employment Law 101: Who Does The FMLA Cover?

September 7, 2010 | by Eric B. Meyer

My blog designers told me that if I want to build SEO — that’s Search Engine Optimization to you rookies — I’d better write about employment law issues affecting Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (duh!) and “optimize” my blog post titles with the keywords near the front.

Learn more about which employees are covered after the jump.
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