The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides employees essentially two paths to bring lawsuits for alleged FMLA violations: retaliation claims and interference claims. Employers are ...

An employee will notify their supervisor and Human Resources of the need to request FMLA leave as soon as possible. If the leave is foreseeable, the employee will give at least 30 days’ advance notice ...

Do you require your employees to fill out a form or an application to request leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act? If not, are you thinking of changing to such an approach? Either way, pay ...

An employee was fired for performance issues, not his requests for leave for his wife's pregnancy, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (Kelly v. Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., No. 19 ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- The federal government offers a wide range of leave options to assist an employee who needs to be away from the workplace. Some of these leave options include annual leave ...

Brandeis has developed a set of comprehensive family and medical leave benefits that best support employees and their families. Employees may be able to continue to receive pay during an FMLA leave, ...

An employee’s request for disability leave until “September or October” wasn’t specific enough to render the time off a reasonable accommodation, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday ...