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 1,250 hours in a year before qualifying. Continue reading
The Impasses Panel just sent a very loud and clear message to unions working for employers that bargain with multiple unions. The Panel is more than willing to take away bargaining rights from the last union to settle with management in a mid-term bargaining dispute. Continue reading
Can an employee receive admin leave on a day in which he/she was off on annual leave? Yes, according to the FLRA. Continue reading
Disabled employees just got a little more clout to insist on reassignment to jobs they can do. Continue reading
One of organized labor’s biggest mistakes was to turn over to the government and private attorneys enforcement of the over 30 labor laws unions worked so hard to push through Congress. As a result, tens of thousands of employees each year rely on a federal official or private attorney for help with an employment problem rather than turn to a union. Unions made themselves significantly less relevant by turning this representational work over to others, and, sadly, too many federal sector unions are going down the same self-destructive path that their private sector predecessors did. Continue reading
If your members earn the right to collect severance pay, you might want to remind the employer that it should not withhold FICA tax from the check. If they ask why, direct them to this article by the LITTLER law firm about a recent federal circuit court decision.