Q: Our employee would like to take time off to care for her niece, who has a serious health condition. The niece lives with the employee, but there’s no legal guardianship arrangement. Can the employee take FMLA leave in this situation?
Read More…Q: We use a lot of workers that we obtain from a temporary services provider. What employment obligations do we have with respect to these workers since they’re not really “our” employees?
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Governor Brown has recently signed a flurry of California bills into law.
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Q: I have a worker that returned to her country during the holiday season and sent a cryptic note from her foreign doctor, stating she needed to stay and care for her mother. Do I have to provide FMLA leave?
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Q: We have an exempt employee who is in the National Guard. He requested a single day off for duty. Since he’s a salaried employee and he’s working during that pay period do we have to pay him his full salary?
Read More…If an employee asked you for unpaid leave to travel abroad for his father’s funeral and to participate in the burial rites, would you understand that to be a request for a religious accommodation?
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All employees will be eligible to take leave for domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, if they work for an employer with at least six employees, pursuant to HB 2903, which was recently signed by the governor and goes into effect on January 1, 2014.
Read More…Q: An employee who has been on FMLA leave for his own serious health condition—a very serious heart condition—has given us a note from his doctor that says he’s fit to return to duty, but we have grave concerns about whether he can work safely. Can we require him to get a second opinion from our company doctor before we return him to his job?
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The categories of protected leave under the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) will be expanded to include bereavement leave as of January 1, 2014, pursuant to HB 2950, which was recently signed by Governor Kitzhaber.
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Administering intermittent leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can be a challenge for employers.
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