Earlier this month, the House of Representatives held a hearing on a bill that would make offering paid sick leave mandatory for employers.
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Tags: Healthy Families Act, HFA, mandatory paid sick leave, Obama
A recent case is a reminder that working in HR is often like herding cats — once you’ve got managers doing one thing right, there’s a chance they’re making mistakes in another area.
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Tags: age, documentation, sex discrimination, supervisor
Legal experts are still trying to comb their way through the 1,079-page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act President Obama signed into law last month. And deep in the document, they’re finding several provisions that will have a big impact on HR.
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Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, bail-out, COBRA, HIPAA, Obama, stimulus
Many employers choose to have leave policies that are more generous than what the FMLA requires. But as a recent case shows, that doesn’t mean those companies are immune to lawsuits.
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Tags: FMLA, paid leave, returning from FMLA leave
Though it was only signed a few weeks ago, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act has already caused big legal problems for some companies.
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Tags: Lilly Ledbetter, Obama, pay discrimination
HR knows how to comply with all of FMLA’s requirements. But not all managers do — and they’re normally the first ones employees talk to when they need time off. That leaves many companies open to lawsuits caused by some common FMLA mistakes.
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Tags: attendance, certification, FMLA mistakes, performance
Just as employers were set to start using an updated version of the Form I-9, the feds have delayed the implementation of the new form. What now?
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A new Supreme Court ruling sends managers a message about conducting complaint investigations: Watch how employees serving as witnesses are treated — or the company could be hit with a retaliation claim.
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Tags: investigation, retaliation, Supreme Court, witness
One of a manager’s hardest tasks: Dealing with a difficult employee who’s constantly making frivolous complaints. What can supervisors do without being accused of retaliation?
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Some members of Congress are already following through on one of last year’s campaign promises: making it easier to sue employers for pay discrimination.
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Tags: Congress, Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay discrimination, Paycheck Fairness Act
