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 ...

An employee will notify their supervisor and Human Resources of the need to request FMLA leave as soon as possible. If the leave is foreseeable, the employee will give at least 30 days’ advance notice ...

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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 ...

If there is a situation in which an employee needs to take a leave of absence, various options are available, depending on the employee's length of service: FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) ...

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 ...

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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Brown v. ScriptPro, recently clarified that discharging an employee within two days of a request for medical leave does not by itself establish a violation of the ...