If I gave you a million tries, you’d never guess that the next Department of Labor FMLA opinion letter would answer the question [wait for it . . .]: Is an employee’s attendance at a child’s IEP meeting covered by the FMLA? The Answer? Yes. Most definitely, yes. In...
No legal authority to issue its Enforcement Guidance!In February 2018, I wrote about a federal court decision that enjoined (prohibited) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from taking any action to enforce its 2012 criminal background check guidelines...
There are some employment policies that you can get away with not having. An anti-discrimination policy is not one of them.In Hubbell v. FedEx SmartPost (decided yesterday by the 6th Circuit), FedEx learned this lesson the hard way.Sheryl Hubbell worked for...
Employers, you see this movie all too often. You tolerate, and then ultimately discharge, a poor-performing employee who displays a bad attitude. Unfortunately, supervisors have not documented the employee’s prior instances of insubordinate and adversarial behavior....
A tough situation. Could it have been handled better?The Pennsylvania Department of Insurance will be going to trial in a retaliation case involving reference information it provided for a former employee.Did the Department really mess up, or is this the case of a...
