The FMLA Insights blog has an interesting post about FMLA leave during the holiday season. The post lays out a hypothetical scenario where an employee requests vacation leave, has the request denied, and then instead calls in sick and requests FMLA leave- a situation the employer feels is a dubious…
As we have seen recently, the intersection of social media policies and employment law is a growing area of discussion and litigation. The extent to which employers have access to information employees post to social media sites is fairly controversial, and some states have taken steps to pass legislation that…
I hope everyone has had a safe and happy holiday season. Here are two links to some interesting employment law developments from the past couple of weeks, along with a little analysis. Check back for a year-in-review look at some of our blog posts tomorrow. We have previously looked at…
In Indianapolis, hotel workers recently entered into a settlement in a lawsuit against national staffing company Hospitality Staffing Solutions (HSS). The lawsuit alleged the workers hadn’t been fully paid for housekeeping services they performed at nine area hotels. The workers’ claims ranged from several hundred to several thousand dollars. The…
Here are some quick summaries of a few interesting employment law developments from the past week. The Employer Handbook has an interesting look at a case where a company’s HR manager admitted that the company fired an employee as a form of FMLA retaliation. The employee was scheduled for a month of FMLA…
A recent Supreme Court Decision looked at the intersection to two hot legal topics: noncompete agreements and arbitration clauses. The case, Nitro-Lift Technologies LLC v. Howard, examined whether an arbitration clause was enforceable when the underlying noncompete clause would be invalid under the law of the state where the contract was…
I’ve posted links to the first two articles by EEO Legal Solutions looking at the EEOC’s Fiscal Year 2012 Performance and Accountability Report. Here, we finish up the series with a look at the final article, which seeks to predict future EEOC policy and provide some takeaways for employers and…
A few days ago I posted a short link to an excellent analysis of the EEOC’s recent Fiscal Year 2012 Performance and Accountability Report. The first segment of the analysis was highly skeptical of the EEOC’s claim that its increased settlement collections were evidence of more successful enforcement of federal…
A new federal case has upheld the right of an employee to take FMLA leave to care for a parent who is on a recreational trip. The case represents a significant broadening of FMLA leave, and represents one of the most important cases of the year. In the case the…
Here are a few links to some interesting stories from the last week. There are a couple of articles about interesting developments in the world of pension funds, as well as analysis of a recent Supreme Court oral argument and new EEOC strategy documents. On the EEOC front, EEO Legal…