HR professionals are already well aware that the FMLA is triggered by, among other things, a “serious health condition,” which, oversimplifying, consists of (1) overnight “inpatient care” such as in a hospital, as well as “any period of incapacity” following such inpatient care and (2) “continuing treatment by a health care provider.” The FMLA regulations […]
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The EEOC issued guidance on vaccines, as subpart K of its Technical Assistance (FAQ) regarding coronavirus. The EEOC’s FAQ is not regulatory, it does not carry the weight of law, and it did not reach any specific conclusions. Rather, it included the EEOC’s current thinking that: It may become possible, as vaccines begin to be […]
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The DOL has issued its final rule regarding tip-pooling. The DOL explains its revisions, as follows: In this final rule, the Department: removes the portions of the regulations that prohibited employers that do not take a tip credit from implementing mandatory “nontraditional” tip pools—that is, tip pools that include employees who do not customarily and […]
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The CDLE has issued a new batch of rules and INFO sheets #6B and #6C confirming the need, in Colorado, to issue a fresh 80 hours of pandemic leave. In other words, an employee who has used, for example, 70 of their current 80 hours, will have their remaining 10 hours zeroed out at the […]
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Continuing to expand on religious exemptions from EEO laws recognized by both the Supreme Court and itself, the DOL has expanded, in a final rule applicable to federal contractors, the religious exemption to now include even closely-held corporations so long as the company qualifies as a religious organization. To qualify as religious a corporation, association, […]
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