The Employer Handbook

• newThe DOL announces a Final Rule to help you offer perks and benefits to your employees and still pay those workers properly
  Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay Back in March, when I debated going on the lam after some completely innocent child labor wage-and-hour shenanigans, the United States Department of Labor announced that it was going to work on a…
  - 22 hours ago, 13 Dec 19, 11:30am -
• newADA accommodations don’t require eliminating essential job functions, like coming to work punctually.
  Image Credit: https://freesvg.org/1550658029 (Public Domain) Regular, in-person attendance is generally critical to performing one’s job. So, when an employee exhausts her twelve weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act only to miss an…
  - 2 days ago, 12 Dec 19, 12:20pm -
• newBipartisan bill will provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave. But, there’s a catch…
  Image by Pintera Studio from Pixabay Several media outlets, among them Law360 and NBC News, are reporting that Congress almost has a deal done to provide 12 weeks of paid leave to employees to care for a newborn or adopted child or to care for a fami…
  - 3 days ago, 11 Dec 19, 12:15pm -

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• The Worst Way to Grow your Email List — And What You Should Do Instead
  “Double your list overnight!” “Automatically add 1,500 subscribers to your email list in a matter of minutes!” “Tired of waiting for subscribers to come along?? We have just what you’ve been waiting for!” Flashy taglines like these are…
  - 9 days ago, 5 Dec 19, 5:57pm -
• Supercharge and Protect your Podcast Feeds
  Announcing Procaster by FeedBlitz Built for professional podcasters, Procaster extends FeedBlitz’s established RSS feed service, enabling power publishers to: ● Keep thousands of episodes live with extra RSS feed capacity● Securely deliver prem…
  - 15 May 19, 3:11pm -
• How to Take Your RSS to Email from Meh to Yeah!
  RSS to Email is a form of email automation that uses a feature almost every website has, though for some it’s a hidden feature: the RSS Feed. Utilizing the RSS Feed, you can send automatic emails to notify your subscribers of changes to your site,…
  - 5 Apr 19, 2:16pm -

The Employer's Lawyer

• When Rhetoric Comes to Town
  By now, if you haven’t heard about Donald Trump’s statements on Muslims and his plan to prevent Muslims from entering the country, as well as the vehement support he is receiving from an astonishing number of people, you may be living under a roc…
  - 9 Dec 15, 7:44pm -
• Beware the FMLA Equitable Estoppel Claim
  Imagine that your company has 40 employees, one of whom is subject to hospitalization for a medical condition and requires surgery. He is out of work for several weeks and in his absence, the company realizes that it gets along fine without him. As a…
  - 10 Nov 15, 2:23pm -
• Don’t Bet on the Jury Verdict
  As some of those who follow me on Twitter know, I had jury duty in September. Like most people, it wasn’t something I was looking forward to (and I even tried to get out of it on the basis that no one would pick a lawyer for a jury). Well, it turn…
  - 5 Nov 15, 2:55pm -

Connecticut Employment Law Blog

• The Employment Law Footnote to Local Television Icon Denise D’Ascenzo’s Amazing Career
  As someone who grew up in Connecticut and watched Channel 3 news religiously (at least before the internet), Denise D’Ascenzo, the local news anchor who passed away suddenly on Saturday, was one of a kind.  She was professional, authoritative, kno…
  - 5 days ago, 8 Dec 19, 10:48pm -
• The Dialogue: A Busy Year in Employment Law in 2019 with a Look Ahead to 2020
  It’s been far too long since our last installment from March 2019, but my ongoing dialogue with Nina Pirrotti, a prominent plaintiff’s-side employment law attorney, is back. In this post, we talked about the highlights from 2019 with a sneak peek…
  - 11 days ago, 3 Dec 19, 3:43pm -
• Stuffing Discrimination Complaints Into Thanksgiving? Feast on these Cases
  Did you hear about the guy who went into a rage when he got the shorter end of the wishbone? He just snapped! In prior posts, I’ve described how Valentine’s Day and Halloween have been fowl holidays for employers.  Many a harassment or discrimin…
  - 18 days ago, 26 Nov 19, 12:47pm -

FMLA Insights

• Free Webinar: Stop the Madness! Effective Ways to Protect Your Organization Against FMLA Abuse
  When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time) Online registration:  Click here The Family and Medical Leave Act is generally considered to be an employee-friendly law, and employers have often felt helpless to do anything bu…
  - 32 days ago, 12 Nov 19, 6:41am -
• Note to Employers: Stop Designating Lengthy Approval Dates on Your FMLA Designation Forms
  I spend a decent part of my day reviewing FMLA forms, certification and correspondence. Exhilarating, for sure.  When it comes to FMLA notices, do you care hear about one of my big pet peeves?  [You: Not really interested, Jeff, but we have the fe…
  - 37 days ago, 7 Nov 19, 12:26pm -
• Can Employees Be Disciplined When They Exceed the Frequency on Their FMLA Medical Certification? A Court Finally May Have Given Us an Answer
  Can an employer discipline an employee for exceeding the frequency of expected absences indicated on an FMLA medical certification? I’m actually going to answer this question tomorrow during a free webinar sponsored by the Disability Management Emp…
  - 47 days ago, 28 Oct 19, 5:34am -

Labor Relations Today

• Free Webinar: Stop the Madness! Effective Ways to Protect Your Organization Against FMLA Abuse
  When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time) Online registration:  Click here The Family and Medical Leave Act is generally considered to be an employee-friendly law, and employers have often felt helpless to do anything bu…
  - 32 days ago, 12 Nov 19, 6:41am -
• Note to Employers: Stop Designating Lengthy Approval Dates on Your FMLA Designation Forms
  I spend a decent part of my day reviewing FMLA forms, certification and correspondence. Exhilarating, for sure.  When it comes to FMLA notices, do you care hear about one of my big pet peeves?  [You: Not really interested, Jeff, but we have the fe…
  - 37 days ago, 7 Nov 19, 12:26pm -
• Can Employees Be Disciplined When They Exceed the Frequency on Their FMLA Medical Certification? A Court Finally May Have Given Us an Answer
  Can an employer discipline an employee for exceeding the frequency of expected absences indicated on an FMLA medical certification? I’m actually going to answer this question tomorrow during a free webinar sponsored by the Disability Management Emp…
  - 47 days ago, 28 Oct 19, 5:34am -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• newSCOPA: Fluctuating Work Week method of overtime pay does not comply with PA Minimum Wage Act
  How do simple concepts get so complicated? Both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act (PMWA) require employers to pay non-exempt employees time-and-a-half for hours over 40 worked in a workweek. So, if an e…
  - 3 days ago, 11 Dec 19, 1:51pm -
• Pennsylvania compromise minimum wage and overtime legislation pending
  The past couple of months have been very hectic on the wage and hour front in Pennsylvania:First, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule, raising the minimum salary threshold for the white collar exemptions to $684/week ($35,568 annually) s…
  - 5 days ago, 9 Dec 19, 1:58pm -
• PA court recognizes private cause of action under Medical Marijuana Act
  Under Pennsylvania's Medical Marijuana Act (MMA):No employer may discharge . . . an employee . . . solely on the basis of such employee's status as an individual who is certified to use medical marijuana. 35 P.S. §  10231.2103(b)(1). But, can a f…
  - 11 days ago, 3 Dec 19, 1:00pm -