The Department of Labor has extended the deadline for comments on the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) from February 2 (this coming Friday) to February 16 (two weeks later). See the notice published in the Federal Register here.
What’s the comment period about? In a nutshell: anytime a federal agency wants to makes changes to […]

Score one for Wal-Mart. The retail giant, heavily criticized for its poor treatment of its workforce, won the latest round in its battle against the Maryland Fair Share Health Care Fund Act with an opinion from the 4th Circuit upholding the district court’s ruling that the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempted the state […]

The blogosphere is growing by leaps and bounds, it seems, and many of the new blog-babies are legally-oriented. One of the latest and most interesting is the California Employee Rights Blog, hosted by James Peters of the Peters Law Group in Ventura, California. James posts in Q&A format, and covers such topics as workplace harassment, […]

New years are the best, no? You get a brand new opportunity to wipe the slate clean, create new and lasting positive habits to replace the old negative ones, embrace new ideas, and basically get a do-over. This year, why not try adopting one or two workplace resolutions to go with the others? Here […]