Following on the last post regarding the push for paid sick leave comes this press release from the Department of Labor, which is seeking comments from the public on the decade-old regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act. 
Whenever an administrative agency such as the Department of Labor seeks to amend or implement regulations concerning […]

This article from the New York Times (free registration required) details the plans of some minorities’ and workplace rights groups to push for enhanced FMLA rights. On the groups’ collective mind? Paid sick leave.
From the article:
Now supporters are planning a big push for sick day legislation not just in Congress, but in Maine, Maryland, Montana […]

Continuing our series on SC Employee Handbook Cases:
Following the retroactivity decision in Toth, the SC Supreme Court next took up the case of Epps v. Clarendon County, a case with political overtones. The employee in Epps claimed alternatively that he was fired in violation of his employee handbook-cum - contract, and that he was fired […]

Please see this post at the SC Bankruptcy & Consumer Law Blog for an important message about a missing Myrtle Beach Couple.

Continuing our series examining the development in South Carolina of the employee handbook case law, we turn to a case captioned Toth v. Square D Co., a 1989 SC Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court was referred the question of whether the Smalls holding would be extended to employees’ claims of wrongful termination […]

At long last, a rise in wages! Read about it here at the New York Times (free registration required).

A wonderful post by Dalia Lithwick at Slate had me laughing out loud this afternoon. I especially liked the disclaimer language she suggested for invitations to all office holiday parties:
 
WARNING: You are herein invited to attend a Holiday Party. Should you choose to attend this event, you are herein advised that you do so at […]

We’ll definitely get back to our ongoing series on South Carolina’s employment handbook cases but first, a note from the blogosphere about a fascinating pending suit in which an employer’s interest in a healthy workforce smacks headlong into an employee’s right to control his own body.
 First the story, from the Boston Herald: Seems Scott Rodrigues […]