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Manufacturing employers depend on employees being in the right place at the right time. Yet, compliance with applicable leave laws requires possible disruption. Intermittent leave law may be the most ...

A federal appeals court has backed Ascension after it fired an HR specialist following the end of her FMLA leave and a missed ...

Pedestrians pass by the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, location of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on July 22, 2010, in Chicago, Ill. (Scott Olson via ) This story was originally ...

The following opinion was issued on March 3 after The Indiana Lawyer's deadline.  United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitElizabeth Chitwood v. Ascension Health Alliance, d/b/a ...

Family and Medical Leave Act administration is at once a foundational part of HR practice in the U.S. as well as one of its most challenging. The past three years have not made the task any easier, ...

In concept, the FMLA is simple. In practice, however, administering FMLA leave, particularly on an intermittent basis can quickly become complicated, and many employers struggle trying to track and ...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturned a lower court's ruling when it found that a worker's 16-day leave was part of the intermittent leave certified by his physician, rather than ...

Intermittent leave, a type of Family and Medical Leave Act job protection, is leave taken in various blocks of time for a single qualifying family or medical issue. Although there s a lot for your ...

I often hear from employers who aren’t sure how to separate the facts of what they can do for their employees from the fiction they may hear when navigating the complexities of intermittent leave ...

A Home Depot employee says he was fired after requesting medical leave for epilepsy — and race played a role. Robert Green, an African American sales associate at The Home Depot in Philadelphia, has ...