The Employer Handbook

• newJoin me on Facebook Live today at noon for another COVID-19 chat for HR and employment attorneys
  Yatko / CC BY-SA Back by popular request, I’ll be hosting a Facebook Live session today at Noon eastern on The Employer Handbook Facebook page. Among other things, I plan to cover: A few additional thoughts on the DOL’s FFRCA rulemaking, includin…
  - 1 day ago, 3 Apr 20, 10:30am -
• newDOUBLE FEATURE: CARES Act (PPP) and FFCRA videos that will explain everything*
  Image Credit: Photofunia.com *The Employer Handbook neither guarantees nor represent that anything in today’s post explains ‘everything.’ Instead, in case you hadn’t figured it out already, the author of this blog loves clickbait and Flaming…
  - 2 days ago, 2 Apr 20, 10:30am -
• BONUS POST: The IRS wants you to know how to document FFCRA leave to get those tax credits
  By United States Department of the Treasury – https://www.irs.gov, Public Domain, Link (Two posts in one day! And a CARES Act/PPP Amazing Spectacular! I must really love you guys.) Yesterday, the IRS issued this new FFCRA list of Frequently Asked Q…
  - 3 days ago, 1 Apr 20, 12:45pm -

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

• NBC News takes the unprecedented step to release its internal Matt Lauer harassment report
  Image by Max Goldberg via Wiki CommonsYesterday morning, NBC News released the complete report into its months long investigation of Matt Lauer.I was astounded by NBC’s transparency. It is extraordinarily rare for a private company…
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• Sympathetic does not always equal protected under the ADA
  Photo by Pexels on PixabayToday’s opinion is a lesson straight out of the school of hard knocks. No matter how sympathetic the plaintiff or how harrowing his plights, the law is the law and sometimes it’s just not on his side.When…
  - 9 May 18, 11:34am -
• Should employers still test for marijuana?
  Photo by Michael Fischer from PexelsOhio’s medical marijuana program is set to be fully operational by September 2018. Ohio will join 28 other states, and the District of Columbia, in which doctors can legally prescribe marijuana to treat c…
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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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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Connecticut Employment Law Blog

• newFriday Coronavirus Update: Webinar Recaps, CARES Act, DOL Regulations
  This pandemic is exhausting. There’s obviously the personal: The “work from home” novelty has worn off and now comes to tough part of trying to find the boundaries of work and home.  Each day feels like it is 16 hours long (maybe because it is…
  - 1 day ago, 3 Apr 20, 12:52pm -
• newNo Joke: DOL Issues Regulations Further Expanding Paid Leave Provisions
  Just another day in employment law. Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Labor issued new regulations that further expand what was previously known about the paid leave provisions of the EPSLA and the EFMLEA. You can view the regulations here.   …
  - 3 days ago, 1 Apr 20, 8:10pm -
• What Comes Next for Employers? A Webinar + CARES Act Help
  On Tuesday at noon, my colleagues and I are holding a video webinar on practical tips for employers dealing with the COVID-19 crisis now and in the near future.  The program will have a national outlook but we’ll hit on a few state specific resou…
  - 5 days ago, 31 Mar 20, 1:00am -

FMLA Insights

• newDOL Issues Regulations Implementing the New Emergency Paid Sick and Paid FMLA Law
  Let me start with a toast. A toast to the Department of Labor, which was thrust into a spotlight it didn’t seek. After Congress hastily cobbled together a bunch of confusing words on paper providing many American workers with a modest amount of pai…
  - 1 day ago, 3 Apr 20, 6:41am -
• IRS Limits the Number of Caretakers for Paid Leave, Outlines the Documentation Required to Take Leave
  Late yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service took a hard line on an employee’s need for emergency paid sick leave (EPSL) and emergency paid FMLA (FMLA+), taking the position that only one caretaker can take leave for a child whose school or childca…
  - 3 days ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:37am -
• DOL Publishes Third Round of FAQs on Paid Leave Law: Agency Covers Total Leave Entitlement, Return to Work, Help for Small Employers, Excludes Health Care Providers
  Who wants Part III? Come on, you know you’ve been craving this all weekend. More FAQs.  It’s like winning a cake eating contest, and the prize is . . . more cake. Late Saturday night, the Department of Labor issued a third round of Q&As (FAQs #3…
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Labor Relations Today

• newDOL Issues Regulations Implementing the New Emergency Paid Sick and Paid FMLA Law
  Let me start with a toast. A toast to the Department of Labor, which was thrust into a spotlight it didn’t seek. After Congress hastily cobbled together a bunch of confusing words on paper providing many American workers with a modest amount of pai…
  - 1 day ago, 3 Apr 20, 6:41am -
• IRS Limits the Number of Caretakers for Paid Leave, Outlines the Documentation Required to Take Leave
  Late yesterday, the Internal Revenue Service took a hard line on an employee’s need for emergency paid sick leave (EPSL) and emergency paid FMLA (FMLA+), taking the position that only one caretaker can take leave for a child whose school or childca…
  - 3 days ago, 1 Apr 20, 6:37am -
• DOL Publishes Third Round of FAQs on Paid Leave Law: Agency Covers Total Leave Entitlement, Return to Work, Help for Small Employers, Excludes Health Care Providers
  Who wants Part III? Come on, you know you’ve been craving this all weekend. More FAQs.  It’s like winning a cake eating contest, and the prize is . . . more cake. Late Saturday night, the Department of Labor issued a third round of Q&As (FAQs #3…
  - 6 days ago, 29 Mar 20, 6:51pm -

Employment and Labor Insider

Delaware Employment Blog

Lawffice Space

• newHow to document employee paid sick leave and FMLA requests under FFCRA
  The new DOL FFCRA regs provide important rules for documentation of employee leave requests and recordkeeping. As a reminder, for the rest of the year, employees get up to 80 hours of paid sick leave for any of the following six reasons:1. The employ…
  - 18 hours ago, 3 Apr 20, 8:09pm -
• newStay-at-home orders as "quarantine or isolation" orders under the FFCRA
  Welp, yesterday's release of the DOL regs for the FFCRA answered one question: Are statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders a form of "quarantine or isolation" order that justifies emergency paid sick leave? Yes. But, the explanation sure se…
  - 2 days ago, 2 Apr 20, 12:29pm -
• newNew DOL regs ("temporary rule") for FFCRA are here!
  Hot off the press, new DOL press release: U.S. Department of Labor Announces New Paid Sick Leave and Expanded Family and Medical Leave Implementation. The main attraction is, of course, the long-awaited (14 days is a long time in coronovirus respons…
  - 3 days ago, 1 Apr 20, 8:19pm -