by Compliance Team | Oct 27, 2014 | Absence Management, FMLA, Uncategorized
Two courts recently handed down decisions* regarding how employers send FMLA notifications, and suddenly everyone is asking, “email or first-class mail?” Here’s the legal background: the first case involved the sufficiency of mailing an FMLA...
by Compliance Team | Oct 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
By: Ashlee Brennan, J.D., Compliance Associate and Megan Holstein, Esq., Director of Compliance At Reed Group we’ve been talking about leave as an accommodation for years. We wrote a white paper on the topic when it became clear the EEOC would not issue long-awaited...
by Compliance Team | Oct 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Three federal laws and enforcement priorities of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are making state pregnancy leave and accommodations laws a subject of concern for employers who want to be in compliance and do the right thing for their employees. In...
by Compliance Team | Oct 9, 2014 | Absence Management
By Lori Welty and Megan Holstein “What Happened?”: On October 6, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear 5 separate appeals arising from federal circuit court decisions holding that state bans of same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. “Why Does It...