What Employers Should Know About Pregnancy Discrimination

by | Jun 30, 2023 | Human Resources

Pregnancy discrimination happens when an employer treats an applicant or employee unfavorably because they’re pregnant, gave birth to a child, or have a medical condition related to their pregnancy or childbirth. Despite being against the law, pregnancy discrimination...

How do we know if we’re required to provide FMLA for our employees?

by | Jun 14, 2023 | Employment Law, Human Resources

Answer from Jenny, SPHR, SHRM-SCP: The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides covered employees job-protected, unpaid leave for family or medical related reasons, such as to care for a sick family member or the birth or adoption of a child. Private sector...

FMLA Turns 30: Let’s Get Back to Basics

by | Feb 12, 2023 | Employment Law, Human Resources

For 30 years, HR professionals have been working with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a federal law enacted to protect employees’ jobs and medical insurance when they need to take unpaid time away from work for certain family and medical reasons. While FMLA...

Can we discipline an employee for working for another employer during FMLA?

by | Sep 18, 2022 | Human Resources

Answer from Megan, JD, SPHR: Yes, in two circumstances. First, you can discipline the employee if their other job violates your outside employment (aka moonlighting) policy. Second, you can discipline an employee who obtained FMLA leave fraudulently. If, however, you...

What is FMLA?

by | Jun 19, 2022 | Employment Law

Answer from Kara, JD, SPHR: FMLA is short for the Family and Medical Leave Act, a federal law that provides employees with unpaid, job protected leave and benefits continuation in certain circumstances. People also commonly call leave under this law FMLA, as in...