by Kyle Smith | Mar 24, 2019 | Business Ownership, Employees, Human Resources
FMLA FLSA2019-1-A – The first question to the agency involved employers permitting employees to exhaust paid leave prior to designating the leave as FMLA leave? The second question was whether an employer can designate more than 12 weeks of leave as FMLA leave. The...
by Kyle Smith | Sep 28, 2017 | Human Resources
MJ was a marketing manager for BNSF, a railway company, and had been so employed since 2002. She was having some difficulty keeping up with her workload, and was put on a performance improvement plan on April 25, 2016. She did not agree with being put on such plan. On...
by Kyle Smith | Aug 24, 2017 | Employee Leave, Employees
Employers should be aware that the EEOC has taken the position that leave policies under which an employee’s employment is automatically terminated after a set number of days, or months, violate the ADA. Case in point: the EEOC sued Lowes last year for violating the...