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With all of the uncertainty over re-opening businesses, you might be tempted to ask your employees and customers to sign a COVID-19 waiver before you let them return inside your buildings. Don’t do it. Proving someone did or didn’t contract the novel coronavirus from any particular location or person is extremely difficult. But what isn’t …
It’s popular today to bash the big bad government bureaucracy. Whether or not you agree with the bashing, the US Dept of Labor has recently published this admittedly helpful “Employer’s Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)“. It’s chock full of useful examples based upon hypothetical yet frequently encountered situations.
Those of you who handle FMLA matters know that it can be a paper-intensive undertaking. You’ve probably grown accustomed to sending Notices of Eligibility, medical certification, and Designation Notices by US postal mail. Unfortunately, not every federal district or appellate court thinks that’s good enough. In Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges, the appellate court chided that “in this age …