A West Virginia federal court granted summary judgment to CSX on the FMLA interference claim of an employee with chronic kidney stones, but allowed his FMLA retaliation claim to go to trial. Pack v.

CSX Transportation Inc. is headed for trial over whether firing an employee for skipping work because his children were ...

Wage and Hour Division explains that employees may use leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) not only to attend qualifying medical appointments, but also for the time spent traveling to ...

New Jersey approves a major expansion of paid family leave, lowering the employer threshold to 15 workers and extending ...

This week, we examine the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) recent opinion letters clarifying critical Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) compliance standards, ...

Work does not look the same as it did years ago. Many people now earn a living through creative or non traditional roles.

I wish I could use this column to highlight Minnesota’s new best-in-the-nation Paid Leave program, which went into effect on ...

The Department of Employment and Economic Development says it began distributing payments on Friday to over 2,600ns.

Labor laws clashed with labor and delivery as one mom tried to hold back and prevent her baby from coming until FMLA ...

Six new opinion letters released Monday by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division detail various applications of ...

While the Family and Medical Leave Act protects time spent traveling to appointments, it does not encompass stops for other ...

Illinois workers with a newborn in a neonatal intensive care unit will soon have additional access to job-protected, unpaid leave. Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 2978, dubbed the Family Neonatal ...