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Most individuals do not need to speak with an employment attorney to know that, under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), qualifying employees can take up to twelve weeks of unpaid medical leave during a one year period to treat a serious medical condition...
When an employer is found liable for failure to pay his or her employees minimum wages or overtime compensation, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) mandates the imposition of liquidated damages on the employer. This means that the plaintiff’s award of back-pay is...
As an employee, you may have had to use medical leave either to care for yourself or for a loved one. If eligible, you may have taken medical leave under the Family Medical Leave Act which grants employees a designated amount of unpaid medical leave during the...
One of our employment law attorneys was recently asked this question. Under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), the answer is typically yes. If an employer lets other employees schedule time off in one hour increments to come in late or leave early, then the...
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently published “29 CFR Part 825, The Family and Medical Leave Act; Final Rule,” (“Final Rule”) which amended the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) with regard to coverage of military caregiver and exigency leaves. These changes...
So one of our employment law lawyers was asked the other day by a mother of a new born whether she could spread out her leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) after the birth of her baby by taking intermittent FMLA leave or a reduced leave schedule....
No matter how many times that our employment attorneys, warn clients about the dangers of social media, there are always some that just don’t get it. Our most recent example comes by way of Lineberry v. Richards, in which Carol Lineberry was a registered nurse at...
As an employment law attorney, I run into this question quite often, and the short answer is “yes.” Like all short answers, however, there are a number of variables which can alter this preliminary response. For instance, a number of class action lawsuits...
When a new client retains us to handle their case, one of the first things the attorneys at Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firmadvise the client is not to post about his or her case on social media websites. A recent case provides a good reminder of precisely why we...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate based on an employee’s pregnancy. As pregnancy and maternity leave employment discrimination attorneys, we have seen...