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Even With Additional Structure and Time, Employers Continue To Face Liability Under The FMLA's Individual Notice Requirements
In last month's article "Act Now To Take Advantage of Recent Employer-Friendly FMLA Changes," we reviewed an employer's general notice obligations under the recently updated FMLA regulations, including important policy changes that should be implemented to take advantage of employer-friendly...
Read MoreThe Employee Free Choice Act, REGISTER Act, Employee Patriot Act And More - The Unions' Strategy To Stage A Comeback
Editor: How does The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) fit into an overall strategy to engineer a comeback for unions? Redeker: A lot of attention is being focused on The Employee Free Choice Act, but it is just the first prong in a five-pronged union strategy to take advantage of the change in the...
Read MoreHow WolfBlock's Boston Office Offers One-Stop Shopping
Editor: Mr. Crowe, this newspaper had previously interviewed you in 2006, shortly after the opening of the firm's office in Boston. Your story of how you came to open the office was a true win-win account. You and your partner were able to combine your expertise in political activism in what came...
Read MoreAct Now To Take Advantage Of Recent Employer-Friendly FMLA Changes
Effective January 16, 2009, the final regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) put in motion significant changes to the manner in which employers administer their FMLA policies, including the form and content of employer notice obligations. The final regulations...
Read MoreThe Risky Business Of Using Contingent Workers
Although many companies assume they have no liability for temporary, leased or outsourced employees - collectively referred to as "contingent workers" - the use of such workers does not automatically relieve a company of employment-related liability.Companies that use contingent workers are...
Read MoreCaught Between WARN And A Hard Place
As companies struggle to stay afloat in the current economic climate, they must cut expenses any way they can, including making reductions to employee headcount. Often these reductions in force are done without advance notice and the result has been a significant number of lawsuits filed...
Read MoreNo Match Is Back: Employers Remain Adrift Without Safe Harbor
On October 28, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Supplemental Final Rule that according to the comments reaffirmed and clarified the Final Rule published on August 15, 2007. The rule, titled "Safe Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No Match Letter,"...
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