New Jersey has a new paid family leave law, joining California and Washington as the only states in the country having such a law.  Click here for the details.

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Probably not around the corner, but the drumbeat for it may get louder.  As an article in the Washington Postpoints out, Congress is considering a bill that would mandate paid parental leave for federal employees.  It’s kind of bogged down, but this is the kind of issue the November election just might unbog–not just for […]

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Here’s an alert from my law firm, Miller & Martin, about the proposed Family and Medical Leave Act regulations.  As noted in a previous post, you have unitl April 11 to comment on these proposed regs.
http://www.millermartin.com/cgi-bin/acuweb/acuweb.cgi?s=mmweb&t=DetailLatestLegalDevs.htm&StoryID=1119

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If you would like a copy of the proposed Family and Medical Leave Act regulations, click below.
http://www.hrhero.com/fmla_update.pdf?HLW
If you want to comment on the proposed FMLA regs, you must do so by April 11 in accordance with the instructions found in the regs’ beginning summary.

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It’s finally happened. The Department of Labor has proposed some changes to its Family and Medical Leave Act regulations. These proposed regs will be published in the Federal Register on Monday, February 11. I’ll have more on this next week, but for those of you who can’t think of anything better to […]

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President Bush has signed the Defense Authorization Act.  This is significant for employers, because this Act contains amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act, the first amendments to the law since it was enacted in 1993.
These amendments give additional leave to employees who have family members in the military.  In fact, the amendments create […]

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On January 25, I did a brief post on the Department of Labor’s announcement that it was working on new regulations for the Family and Medical Leave Act.  These regs would be designed to address some long-standing employer concerns.  Dan Schwartz blogs about this subject, noting that Senator Chris Dodd (formerly presidential candidate Dodd) has his own concerns […]

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Ask any human resources professional which law causes the most problems day-in-and-day-out, and the majority will say the Family and Medical Leave Act.  Almost since the law was first enacted in 1993, employers have been calling for changes to stem abuse and clarify the meaning of key terms, and employee groups have been lobbying for […]

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We have two new ones going now.
First, there is “The Challenge of FMLA Use and Abuse in the Workplace.”  This is being presented by Charlie Plumb with Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Linda Walton with Perkins Coie in its Seattle office.  This presentation was made at AEIS in Nashville by Marc […]

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