Effective April 4, Oregon employers must provide employees who are veterans with paid or unpaid time off on Veterans Day unless doing so would cause a significant economic or operational disruption or undue hardship on the...more
4/26/2013
- Holidays Veterans
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has updated its Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Advisor to reflect the recent expansions of FMLA protections....more
3/25/2013
- DOL FMLA
On the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) introduced the Parental Bereavement Act of 2013 (H.R. 515, S. 226), a bill that would amend the FMLA to...more
2/14/2013
- Bereavement Leave FMLA Paid Leave Parental Bereavement Act
On February 5, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released a final rule implementing and interpreting the Family and Medical Leave Act amendments expanding military-related leave entitlements and the availability of leave for...more
2/7/2013
- DOL FMLA Military Leave
The US Department of Labor (DOL) on February 5 released a final rule implementing and interpreting the Family and Medical Leave Act amendments expanding military-related leave entitlements and the availability of leave for...more
2/6/2013
- Airline Employees DOL FMLA Military Service Members USERRA
February 5 will mark the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton signing into law the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Since that time, the FMLA has provided many eligible employees with an unpaid leave of absence to...more
2/5/2013
- DOL FMLA
On December 20, 2012, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it entered into an agreement with Lesley University to ensure that students with celiac disease and other food allergies can fully and equally enjoy the...more
1/28/2013
- ADA DOJ Food Allergies Lesley University
Starting October 1, 2015, all eligible employees in Washington are slated to receive a maximum of five weeks of paid family leave for the birth or adoption of a child under a state-sponsored insurance program. However, a bill...more
1/28/2013
- Paid Leave
If New York Senators Kevin S. Parker and Ruth Hassell-Thompson have their way, Senate Bill 2626 will require New York employers with one or more employees to provide their employees with paid sick leave - defined as an...more
1/28/2013
- Medical Leave Paid Leave Wages
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its revised regulatory agenda, which includes a plan to finalize Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations regarding military family and caregiver leave. The expected...more
1/23/2013
- DOL FMLA Military Caregiver Leave Veterans
J.A. Thomas & Associates, a medical consulting business, has agreed to pay $350,000 to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This is the fourth EEOC...more
1/9/2013
- ADA Disability Discrimination EEOC Settlement
The Wisconsin Family and Medical Leave Act (WFMLA) has several distinctions from the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Once such difference is that under the FMLA a leave year may be calculated in four different...more
1/7/2013
- FMLA Medical Leave
Effective December 30, 2012, California employers will need to comply with the amended disability discrimination and accommodation regulations, which will change how California employers handle disabilities in the workplace....more
1/7/2013
- Disability Discrimination Reasonable Accommodation
The Supreme Court recently announced that it will address whether the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is constitutional, and whether it improperly denies certain federal benefits to partners in same-sex or domestic...more
12/14/2012
- DOMA Domestic Partnership FMLA Same-Sex Marriage SCOTUS
The Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) and the Department of Defense's Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity have unveiled their 2013 Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP)...more
12/10/2012
- Disability DOL
The US Army has launched a national education campaign entitled Hire a Veteran in an attempt to tackle the key challenges facing veterans returning to the civilian workplace....more
12/5/2012
- ADA USERRA Veterans
A recent New Jersey case, A.D.P. v. ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, +2012 N.J. Super. LEXIS 171 (App. Div. 2012), makes clear that employers should think twice when implementing drug and alcohol testing policies to...more
12/3/2012
- ADA Drug Testing
Since 2010, the DOJ has taken unparalleled steps to enforce civil rights laws that protect the rights of persons living with HIV or AIDS. As World AIDS Day approaches (December 1, 2012), private employers with 15 or more...more
12/3/2012
- ADA AIDS Discrimination
Many times, in particular with the advent of social media, employers receive information regarding an employee's medical condition from various sources and are unsure how that information should be treated. In a recent...more
12/2/2012
- ADA Disability Discrimination EEOC Medical Records
