The Employer Handbook

• newVacation Thread: It’s another FMLA warning about your dookie ‘no-fault’ attendance policy
  By Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link (Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Folks, the blog posts may not be as fast and furious (i.e., daily) as usual this week. That’s because, yes, I am vacat…
  - 21 hours ago, 21 Aug 19, 10:30am -
• newVacation Thread: Probably best not to threaten to fire employees who support unionization
  By Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link (Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Folks, the blog posts may not be as fast and furious (i.e., daily) as usual this week. That’s because, yes, I am vacat…
  - 2 days ago, 20 Aug 19, 10:30am -
• newVacation Thread: DOJ says that transgender discrimination under Title VII is perfectly legal
  By Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link (Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Folks, the blog posts may not be as fast and furious (i.e., daily) as usual this week. That’s because, yes, I am vacat…
  - 3 days ago, 19 Aug 19, 10:30am -

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• 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…
  - 99 days ago, 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 -
• Getting Started with A/B Testing Your Emails
  A big part of email marketing – of all marketing – is finding out what works best for your brand and audience. For those just starting on our email platform or those who are looking to change up how they make their emails, it can be stressful to…
  - 4 Mar 19, 5:58pm -

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

• newEmployment Law Checklist Project: No Discrimination for Sexual Orientation, Unless You’re a Religious Institution
  One of the quirks of discrimination law in Connecticut concerns sexual orientation.  Back in 1991, the General Assembly passed a wide-ranging bill that added sexual orientation as one of the protected classes that employers could not base decisions…
  - 2 days ago, 20 Aug 19, 12:24pm -
• Employment Law Checklist Project: Relaying Information of a Family Emergency to Employees
  One of the reasons I’m working on this project is to highlight the mandates and requirements that employers in the state need to follow. Some can lead to possible litigation; some can lead to, well, something less. Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 31-51jj is…
  - 22 days ago, 31 Jul 19, 2:25pm -
• Employment Law Checklist Project: Thou Shall Not Require Employees to be Sterilized As Condition of Employment
  In my new series (you can read the background here), I’m going to highlight an employment law that employers in Connecticut need to follow. Some of them can lead to lawsuits; some may just lead to fines.   I’ve titled this the “Employment Law…
  - 23 days ago, 30 Jul 19, 12:35pm -

FMLA Insights

• DOL Declares That Parent Attendance at School IEP Meetings Are Covered by the FMLA
  If I gave you a million tries, you’d never guess that the next Department of Labor FMLA opinion letter would answer the question [wait for it . . .]: Is an employee’s attendance at a child’s IEP meeting covered by the FMLA? The Answer? Yes. Mo…
  - 13 days ago, 9 Aug 19, 11:57am -
• Employees Busted Taking FMLA Leave for a Caribbean “Booze” Cruise, Yet Another Reminder Leave Abuse is Alive and Well
  It’s a Friday in the middle of summer. So, approximately half of your workforce called off today due to an FMLA-related absence. [Well, not really, but I’m not that far off, amirite?] Take heart. At least you’re not the City of Chicago. As repo…
  - 34 days ago, 19 Jul 19, 5:35am -
• This One’s a Whopper! Court Puts Kibosh on Burger King Franchisee That Required Two Calls to Request FMLA Leave
  Remember when I told you a few months ago that employers can and should consider requiring that employees make two calls to request FMLA leave? For instance, you might require one call to the supervisor to report the absence, and a second call to Hum…
  - 55 days ago, 28 Jun 19, 12:20pm -

Labor Relations Today

• DOL Declares That Parent Attendance at School IEP Meetings Are Covered by the FMLA
  If I gave you a million tries, you’d never guess that the next Department of Labor FMLA opinion letter would answer the question [wait for it . . .]: Is an employee’s attendance at a child’s IEP meeting covered by the FMLA? The Answer? Yes. Mo…
  - 13 days ago, 9 Aug 19, 11:57am -
• Employees Busted Taking FMLA Leave for a Caribbean “Booze” Cruise, Yet Another Reminder Leave Abuse is Alive and Well
  It’s a Friday in the middle of summer. So, approximately half of your workforce called off today due to an FMLA-related absence. [Well, not really, but I’m not that far off, amirite?] Take heart. At least you’re not the City of Chicago. As repo…
  - 34 days ago, 19 Jul 19, 5:35am -
• This One’s a Whopper! Court Puts Kibosh on Burger King Franchisee That Required Two Calls to Request FMLA Leave
  Remember when I told you a few months ago that employers can and should consider requiring that employees make two calls to request FMLA leave? For instance, you might require one call to the supervisor to report the absence, and a second call to Hum…
  - 55 days ago, 28 Jun 19, 12:20pm -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• DOL: FMLA covers parent meeting to discuss child's IEP
  Not official use.Quick post today. In a new opinion letter, the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division addressed a parents need "to attend a Committee on Special Education (CSE) meeting to discuss the Individualized Education Program (IEP) o…
  - 7 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 12:30pm -
• Accommodation claim survives close shave at the Third Circuit
  "Close shave" - It's a case about a guy with a skin condition, pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), who sought an accommodation to not have to shave his face or neck - get it? Full not precedential opinion here: Lewis v. Univ. of Penn.The Plaintiff/Appel…
  - 8 days ago, 14 Aug 19, 12:56pm -
• Termination letter immunity in Pennsylvania
  Just passing along an interesting tidbit that I stumbled upon while researching something else:Consistent with a policy favoring private resolution of disputes between employers and employees, Pennsylvania law recognizes the absolute privilege of emp…
  - 9 days ago, 13 Aug 19, 12:30pm -