In theory, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a law that recognizes an employee’s need for unforeseen leave while minimizing the costs and efforts of the employer. It sounds simple enough to say that an employee can receive up to 12 weeks (or, up to 26 weeks where applicable) of unpaid leave a year for certain reasons and can then...
According to The Economist there are approximately 37,000 centenarians living in the U.S. As the life expectancy of Americans continues to increase, so does the odds your employees will soon be caring for an elderly family member with some form of dementia.
The EEOC recommends work-life balance programs, flexible work arrangements, flexible sick...
You should always be on your toes when a court in the same federal circuit seems to acknowledge a new legal claim that employees can launch against you. That's why we've been watching a case in the federal district court in Maine ever since the court refused to dismiss an employee's claim that she was a victim of "family...
In March, we wrote about a case based on a theory that's been getting a lot of attention since the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued guidance on it about a year ago. We'd actually already written about the Chadwick v. Wellpoint, Inc., case when it first came before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and...
