Tag: FMLA

Can you get a beer on intermittent FMLA? Court says yes.

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

Intermittent FMLA has always been and probably always will be a contentious issue between employer and employee. Employers often have negative attitudes about intermittent FMLA leave centered largely around self-serving beliefs that employees abuse the legally protected leave rights and do not really need the time off from work. Certainly some employees do abuse FMLA but […]

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7 Tips for Taking FMLA Leave

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

Most of my work with FMLA clients in Texas involves helping them after they have sought FMLA leave and the employer has already violated their FMLA rights. As much as they need urgent help from an employment lawyer, it’s equally as important that employees understand how to properly exercise their rights under FMLA to ensure

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Can I take FMLA leave and leave under the ADA at the same time?

Disability Discrimination Law, Employee rights lawyer

Sometimes an employee has a medical condition or disability that qualifies for FMLA leave and leave under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a reasonable accommodation. The issue how to protect the employee’s job through protected leave under the ADA and FMLA is complicated. Each law provides a different set of rights to leave

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Can my employer disagree with my doctor’s FMLA certification?

Employee rights lawyer, Retaliation Law

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), eligible employees of covered employers can request up to twelve weeks of medical leave within a one year period for a serious medical condition of the employee or a family member as well as the birth or adoption of the employee’s child. When the employee requests FMLA leave

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Can I file an FMLA lawsuit in Texas state courts?

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

Yes, under section 107 of the Family Medical Leave Act, a covered employee may file suit in a federal or state court with competent jurisdiction to hear the FMLA claims. That means an employee with FMLA claims can certainly file those FMLA claims in Texas state courts. Rules governing which Texas state courts have jurisdiction

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Can my employer make me waive FMLA protection?

Employee rights lawyer, Wage & Hour Lawyers

No, an employer cannot require you to sign a waiver of protection under FMLA for future leave or protection from discrimination on the basis of prior use of FMLA. Department of Labor regulations on FMLA prohibit employers from requiring employees to waive FMLA rights and hold any waiver invalid. Like minimum wage and overtime protections, employers

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5 FMLA Myths You Might Believe

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys, Wage & Hour Lawyers

Employment lawyers like myself deal with my fair share of FMLA cases for clients. Among those FMLA claims I see employers violate FMLA often because the employer was ignorant of FMLA regulations or had serious misconceptions about FMLA. I also get plenty of calls from employees who believe their employer violated FMLA but the employee

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Should I ask for FMLA intermittent leave?

Employee rights lawyer

The Family and Medical Leave Act is a federal law that protects the rights of employees to up to twelve weeks of medical leave within a twelve month period for treatment of a serious medical condition. FMLA protects not only the right to a single continuous leave period; FMLA also protects the right to take

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FMLA leave medical recertification: rules and regulations

1 Comment / Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

You request FMLA leave. Your employer requests medical certification. You provide it. Your employer approves your FMLA leave. You take leave. Then, while you are on FMLA leave, your employer is sending you requests for new medical certification? Can your employer do that? The answer is yes, under certain circumstances, your employer can request new

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FMLA and twelve month period for eligibility

1 Comment / Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) medical leave is a huge source of employment litigation in Texas and around the nation. One of the major issues in FMLA leave and FMLA litigation is how the employer calculates eligibility for medical leave. FMLA protects medical leave for qualified medical conditions up to twelve weeks within a

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FMLA leave and exempt employees

1 Comment / Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) protects the right of employees to twelve weeks of medical leave in a twelve month period so long as the employee has worked 1,250 hours in the current or prior calendar year and the employee works at a work location in which the employer employs at least fifty

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FMLA and same sex marriage

Employee rights lawyer

Summer is normally a quiet time in the law because Texas and federal legislators take the summer off; but this summer has been particularly significant for employment law. One of the most important changes came through the Supreme Court’s holding in United States v. Windsor, Executor of the Estate of Spyer, et al. in which

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What employment records should I keep in Texas?

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys

The number one mistake that almost all employees make is not keeping their employment records. If you find yourself contemplating suing your employer over wages or discrimination, having records of your employment can be useful. Even though some records may be available from your employer, some information may never reach your employment file. For example,

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What employment records should I keep?

Employee rights lawyer, Employment Litigation Attorneys, Hiring & Promotion, Wrongful Termination Law

Ideally everything. Employment agreements, new hire paperwork, benefit plan descriptions, paystubs, corrective action notices, company newsletters, HR manuals, department manuals, emails relating to any of the above documents and anything else you might receive. Although a lot of these documents can be uncovered during litigation from your employer, it can be extremely important to have

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Texas employment attorney explains what is FMLA

2 Comments / Employee rights lawyer, Employment Benefits Law, Employment Litigation Attorneys

FMLA is the Family and Medical Leave Act, a federal law that provides certain employees leave protections. FMLA provides twelve weeks of leave in a twelve month period. The twelve month period can be a fixed twelve month period, such as the calendar year, or a rolling twelve month period so the beginning of an

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