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Split of Authority Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Supreme Court Declines to Resolve Circuit Split Over Discouraging Use of FMLA Leave

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) prohibits employers from denying qualified employees’ requests for leave or otherwise interfering with employees’ rights under the law. What happens if an employee never requests FMLA...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Recent Supreme Court Decision Interprets ADEA to Cover State and Local Governments of Any Size

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On November 6, 2018, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, 2018 WL 5794639 (2018), and held that state and local governments of any size are covered under the Age Discrimination in...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

The Supreme Court Rules that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Applies to Small Government Employers

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (“ADEA”) forbids employment discrimination against employees who are 40 years of age or older. Private employers with less than 20 employees are not subject to the ADEA....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Supreme Court Declines Review of Seventh Circuit ADA Leave Decision

Last year, we reported a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision establishing a rule that leave of more than a few weeks in duration falls outside employers’ reasonable accommodation obligations under the Americans with...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Employment Law - February 2017

Ninth Circuit Sends Employment Dispute to Arbitration - Why it matters - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sent an employment dispute to arbitration, reversing a denial of the employer's motion to...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Sixth Circuit Says Ineligible Employee May Still Enjoy FMLA Leave Rights Based on Estoppel Argument

The Family and Medical Leave Act only provides job protected leave rights to eligible employees. Among other eligibility criteria, an employee claiming entitlement to FMLA leave must work at a location with a minimum of 50...more

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