Category Archives: FMLA
TEST YOURSELF- FMLA, DISABILITIES, AND LIGHT DUTY An employee, Jessie Crutch, had a long-time reasonable accommodation of being allowed to rest his hip for a few minutes every few hours while working as a warehouse custodian. As the injury got … Continue reading
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FMLA & SICK LEAVE RECORD RULES EEOC has very specific rules about where employee FMLA and sick leave medical documents can be stored. If the agency violates them, they may owe the employee money damages—as a recent Dept. of Justice … Continue reading
FMLA OFTEN REQUIRES PERFORMANCE STANDARD ADJUSTMENTS Often an employer must adjust an employee’s performance standards once it approves the employee’s FMLA leave request. Not long ago a Federal Circuit Court spelled it out for LR practitioners on both sides of … Continue reading
FMLA LEAVE TO COVER VACATIONS– We recommend that you check out the blog page cited below. A judge has held that employees are entitled to FMLA leave if they are the care giver for a covered member of the family and that … Continue reading
DISCLOSURE OF FMLA MEDICAL INFO TO UNION REQUIRED In the right-hand column of the FEDSMILL.com page we track headlines off web sites of interests to federal employees. One of them deals with FMLA case law and it recently posted an … Continue reading
HURRICANE SANDY AND FMLA Union leaders in the areas hardest hit by the storm are likely to get a few uncommon FMLA questions in the next few days. For example, do the days my federal office was closed count against … Continue reading
CONDUCT WHILE ON FMLA Although we have not seen any federal sector cases where management objects to what the employee does while on FMLA leave, the issue seems to be heating up in the private sector. The FairMeasures.com web site … Continue reading
FMLA QUALIFICATION OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD The Family Medical Leave Act does not impose the same qualification rules on everyone. The biggest difference flows from whether an employee is covered under Title I or Tile II, namely whether an employee must work … Continue reading
A LITTLE HELP WITH FMLA CASE LAW The U. S. Dept. of Labor just made it a little easier for us to understand the Family Medical Leave Act by publishing a “plain English” guide to the law. While OPM, not … Continue reading
FREEBIE FOR FMLA REPRESENTATIVES If you represent members in FMLA matters, check out the America Bar Association’s latest overview of FMLA legal developments. It is free, very thorough, and likely leave to you with a deeper understanding of arguments to … Continue reading