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

It’s bad enough that employment laws have such confusing acronyms – FLSA, FMLA, ADEA, ADA – but why do they have to use different terms for the same thing? Don’t “serious health condition” and “disability” refer to the same thing? … Read more