USA
- April 16 2018
Last June, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it would again issue opinion letters to assist employers and employees in interpreting laws…
USA
- March 29 2018
A week doesn’t go by without a client asking me whether they can discipline an employee for exceeding the number of absences allowed on their FMLA…
USA
- March 1 2018
Johnnie Walker was a longtime police officer with the Pocatello Police Department, and he was tasked with investigating Scott and several other…
USA
- February 5 2018
Back on February 5, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the FMLA into law. This groundbreaking law has allowed new parents time off from their job to…
USA
- January 24 2018
Whenever an employee requests FMLA leave, the employer first must check whether the employee is eligible for FMLA leave. The critical rule is at 29…
USA
- December 21 2017
Managing your employee when their mental condition condition is affecting their performance. Here, we outlined how an employer engages in a…
USA
- December 7 2017
In any event, under the hospital's policies, an employee is subject to termination when they accrue seven absences in a rolling 12-month period…
USA
- November 21 2017
Let's use Thanksgiving Day as an example. If the employee gets Thanksgiving Day off as an employer holiday and then takes the entire rest of work…
USA
- October 19 2017
When a manager learns that one of his employees is in the hospital, that’s almost always enough information for the employer to have an inkling that…
USA
- September 14 2017
Imagine marketing director, Michelle, jamming to this Beyonce song in the middle of AT&T Stadium in Dallas. On that very day, however, she's…