A new rule from the United States Department of Labor (DOL) is about to extend the guarantee of overtime pay to a lot of employees who are not currently receiving it. DOL has published its final rule updating the minimum … Read more

Right now, employees must earn at least $684 each week ($35,568 annually) before they may be exempt from overtime. But you may have noticed headlines saying that the U.S. Department of Labor (US DOL) is raising the minimum salary for … Read more

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guarantees eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying conditions. Any employee who has worked for their employer for a total of at least twelve months and a minimum … Read more

An employee is returning to work from medical leave taken under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). How can the employer know whether the employee is sufficiently recovered to perform their job duties safely and well? The answer may … Read more

If you are a department head, supervisor or human resources professional, you may have experienced this situation at one time or another: one of your employees has been working a second job while on Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) … Read more

Most employees take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in continuous blocks of time. But not all health conditions require an employee to be absent for weeks at a time. Some conditions are episodic in nature, like … Read more

For employees, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a great benefit. It grants them twelve weeks of job-protected (but unpaid) leave each year for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child, the employee’s own serious … Read more

Whether leave taken under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is paid or unpaid is an issue that can confuse employers and employees alike. The FMLA says that leave is unpaid, although employers are required to maintain their … Read more

Sometimes an employee asks for FMLA leave to care for a family member, particularly a parent, but employee’s plans don’t involve physically assisting the family member with activities of daily living. Disputes may arise about whether the employee is entitled … Read more

Have you ever had an employee ask to take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to help a child who is having a baby? Or to care for a beloved aunt who is terminally ill? The FMLA requires … Read more