The decision shows just how thoroughly a court may scrutinize an employer’s handling of intermittent Family and Medical Leave ...

Wage and Hour Division explains that employees may use leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) not only to attend qualifying medical appointments, but also for the time spent traveling to ...

Six new opinion letters released Monday by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division detail various applications of ...

Cliff Kaplan, 65, was in his sixteenth year working at a beverage distribution company in New Berlin when he was diagnosed with stage four esophageal cancer. While he went through chemotherapy, he ...

Editor’s note: The Back to Basics column serves as an accessible way to understand employment law. If you’re new to HR (or just need a little refresher), follow along as the HR Dive team speaks with ...

With thousands of furloughed federal workers not knowing when they’ll get their next paycheck, people with health issues are facing some tough choices as they try to pay their mounting medical bills.

James is a pulmonary and critical care physician specializing in sarcoidosis. When one of my patients was first diagnosed with sarcoidosis, her specialist gave her two options: take steroids or join a ...

Editor’s note: The Back to Basics column serves as an accessible way to understand employment law. If you’re new to HR (or just need a little refresher), follow along as the HR Dive team speaks with ...

The court’s ruling reinforces the idea that post-absence documentation and later clarifications can inform whether an absence should have been covered under the FMLA. An initial mislabeling—whether by ...

Been employed by the University for at least 12 months (consecutive or non-consecutive) and have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period preceding the date FMLA leave commences. An ...

The FMLA and the employment rights and circumstances it seeks to protect are many times complicated and delicate to address in real-time. Employees and employers alike can find themselves frustrated ...

Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Susan Wiltsie and Theanna Bezney discuss the options employers have for handling FMLA retaliation cases. The Family and Medical Leave Act prohibits employers from retaliating ...