Congress adopted the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”) to provide job security for employees who must miss work due to their own serious health condition, the birth of their children, to ...

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In concept, the FMLA is simple. In practice, however, administering FMLA leave, particularly on an intermittent basis can quickly become complicated, and many employers struggle trying to track and ...

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A federal appeals court has backed Ascension after it fired an HR specialist following the end of her FMLA leave and a missed ...

Family and Medical Leave Act administration is at once a foundational part of HR practice in the U.S. as well as one of its most challenging. The past three years have not made the task any easier, ...

During this election season, the fact that the U.S. is the only developed country without paid family and medical leave has been a talking point for more than one candidate. Yet, the prospect of ...

The following opinion was issued on March 3 after The Indiana Lawyer's deadline.  United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitElizabeth Chitwood v. Ascension Health Alliance, d/b/a ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturned a lower court's ruling when it found that a worker's 16-day leave was part of the intermittent leave certified by his physician, rather than ...

Intermittent leave, a type of Family and Medical Leave Act job protection, is leave taken in various blocks of time for a single qualifying family or medical issue. Although there s a lot for your ...

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