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For the purposes of requesting Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) leave, is there a legal difference between the employee who tells his supervisor in passing “I am having back surgery next Monday ...

U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Ed Brown via Wikimedia Commons) As the great philosopher Ferris Bueller once said, life moves pretty fast. Therefore, it's entirely ...

WHD's roll out comes after the department asked for comments on proposed revisions to the forms last August. The updates bring few substantial changes, according to Littler Mendelson Shareholder Jeff ...

An employee was fired for performance issues, not his requests for leave for his wife's pregnancy, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (Kelly v. Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., No. 19 ...

When an employee seeks leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, or when she seeks a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the critical component for success is the ...