FMLA

The White House’s fiscal year 2012 budget request to Congress, released Feb. 14 by the U. S. Office of Management and Budget, reflects the administration’s ongoing determination to fuel its enforcement of federal employment laws.

Absences caused by the use of alcohol — rather than treatment for alcoholism — are not covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act, as a recent ruling from the 7th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals illustrates.

President Obama told Congress Dec. 2 that he will nominate Leon Rodriguez to head the Wage and Hour Division at the U. S. Department of Labor.

That job has been vacant during the entire Obama administration so far.

The U. S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and the American Bar Association are entering into a partnership to help process complaints received by WHD from all over the country about employment law violations.

Employees must follow their companies’ call-in procedures for reporting absences and tardiness, a California appeals court ruled, emphasizing a Family and Medical Leave Act rule that was tightened in favor of employers by the January 2009 regulations.

 An employee may have a valid claim under the Family and Medical Leave Act even if she had not requested leave but her employer knew of her cancer and discussed the prospect that she might take FMLA leave, a federal appeals court has ruled.

An employee who complies with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) notice provisions may obtain the law's protections even if the employee does not comply with the employer's stricter notice policies, the 5th Circuit U.

An employee cannot avoid discharge for insubordination for violating company orders on the ground that because the employer knew of a prior medical condition it was on notice of his need for more Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, the 6th Circuit U.

A jury trial has been ordered on an employee's claim that she was entitled to Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for her daughter after her surgery left her unable to care for herself.

An emergency dispatcher did not have a right to long-term intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), since such a prolonged absence would have rendered her unqualified for duty, the 8th Circuit U.