Imagine you are a busy HR manager or business owner approached in the hall by employee Beth while you are between meetings. Beth briefly mentions a need for “possibly getting FMLA for my dad.” You nod ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows eligible employees to take leave for specific family and medical reasons, including caring for a ...

Here's an answer key to the questions DMEC posed its survey participants: The FMLA offers unpaid, job-protected leave to workers who have serious health conditions or a need to care for a family ...

The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was enacted to allow employees to balance their work and family life by taking reasonable unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. The FMLA seeks to ...

The NJBIZ Interview: Bill McLaneBusiness owners should be looking ahead to Jan. 16 with mixed feelings, says Bill McLane, 49, a shareholder at the Newark office of the law firm Littler Mendelson P.C.

In an attempt to address aspects of the workplace upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. That act included major temporary changes to ...

Commentary: The Family and Medical Leave Act was signed into law in February 1993, and employee benefits administration and time-off tracking have never been the same since. FMLA requires employers to ...

Editor’s note: The following are summaries of Texas appellate court opinions released over the past several months that are relevant to executives and their businesses. THE BOTTOM LINE: Do not ...

The passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in 1993 marked the beginning of mandatory leave in American workplaces. Prior to that, whether leave for any purpose was granted to an employee ...

The New Jersey Attorney General's office disputes the employer's interpretation that FMLA and state family leave must be used concurrently. "Under the law," the office wrote in a statement, "an ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) currently requires companies with more than 50 workers to provide eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year when they or an immediate ...

Employers are understandably very confused over when they must provide medical and maternity leave to employees. All Virginia employers with 50 or more employees, as well as public employers, are ...