Most employers recognize that the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) prohibits them from denying, restraining, or interfering with an employee’s rights to qualified leave. Last week’s Update addressed a situation in which an employer’s frequent phone calls to the employee asking when she would return to work while she was on FMLA leave may
February 2011
Employer’s frequent calls to employee during FMLA may create interference with that leave.
By Maria Danaher on
Posted in FMLA
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), an employer is prohibited from denying, restraining, or interfering with an employee’s rights to qualified leave. One federal court recently found that an employer’s frequent phone calls to the employee asking when she would return to work while she was on FMLA leave may have interfered with…
NLRB complaint based upon Facebook posts as “concerted activity” is settled prior to hearing.
By Maria Danaher on
Posted in NLRA
In November 2010, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its plans to prosecute a complaint issued by a Connecticut regional office regarding the termination of a union member/employee who posted negative remarks about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The complaint alleged that the employer, an ambulance service, maintained and enforced overly broad…