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Q Can a pregnant employee start their 12 workweeks of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave before delivery, and if so, will this shorten their amount of postpartum leave? Yes, if eligible, a pregnant employee may...
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has formalized and affirmed the legal standard for employment discrimination claims for nonminority groups under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What changed...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Charlotte District is charged with enforcing federal employment antidiscrimination laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Recently, the office has been...
Q Can pregnant employees start their 12 weeks of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave before delivery, and if so, will this shorten their amount of postpartum leave? Under the FMLA, eligible employees are entitled...
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) continues to baffle lawyers and HR professionals. But sometimes a riddle brings welcome news, as we see in a recent decision from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal...
Q Can a pregnant employee start her 14 weeks of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave before delivery, and if so, will this shorten her amount of postpartum leave? The FMLA guarantees 12 weeks of unpaid leave within...
Q If we send an employee to another country for a three-month assignment, are we required to pay overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), or can we just pay a daily rate? Must we follow the pay regulations of...
Employers have recently prevailed in several cases across the country in which employees have attacked diversity training and other workplace initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), indicating that...
In June 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers denied a Norwegian tourist entry into the United States. According to the traveler, CBP officers demanded access to his cell phone and expressed concern...
As many readers are certainly aware, President Donald Trump has resumed and intensified immigration enforcement efforts. In the most recent wave of action, the president issued an Executive Order (EO) directing the...
On July 1, 2025, a U.S. District Court in New York issued a decision setting aside the early termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians. In February 2025, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem...
Recently, the Texas Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit based on the theory of negligent hiring. Tragic highway collision Shiraz Ali was a driver in training for Werner Enterprises. He and his trainer, Jack Ackerman, were...
Q One of our hourly, nonexempt employees is attending our company’s annual conference that includes activities after 5 p.m. Are we required to pay them for the time spent traveling to the conference, as well as for the...
The failure of a Harris County employee to pay attention to the small things led to a dismissal of one of his discrimination claims against the county. But the county’s alleged failure to pay attention to some big things...
On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in Stanley v. City of Sanford, addressing the scope of protections available to retired workers under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities...
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