Protect your organization from legal hardships concerning FMLA leave. Know how to successfully manage employees on leave.
Managing leaves of absence under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has become increasingly difficult in recent years.
While technology has improved employers' ability to track their employees' absences, it also can complicate the process of determining whether an employee is requesting FMLA leave, and what type of notice of FMLA leave is sufficient under the current regulations. It is important that employers understand how to get value from the certification and recertification process, and curb abuses of intermittent FMLA leave.
This topic helps human resource and other professionals who handle these issues on a daily basis to understand how to manage all facets of FMLA leave, and how to enforce an FMLA-compliant attendance policy.
Learn how to avoid FMLA retaliation claims, and deal with employees who decline FMLA. Failing to comply with the FMLA's notice and tracking requirements, and not properly approaching the discipline of an employee who has requested or taken FMLA leave when performance issues emerge, are some of the most common errors employers make in complying with the FMLA.
This information, which will rely upon the most recent regulations and case law, is critical for employers so they can avoid the common pitfalls associated with FMLA compliance.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to review how to comply with the FMLA's notice requirements in the Digital Age.
- You will be able to discuss how to leverage certifications of health care providers.
- You will be able to recognize how to curb abuses of intermittent FMLA leave.
- You will be able to explain important tactics for avoiding FMLA retaliation claims.
This live webinar covers these hot issues
How to Determine FMLA Coverage and Eligibility
- Types of Leave
- Covered Employers, Including Joint and Integrated Employers
- Procedures
- Potential Causes of Action for Failure to Comply
How to Comply With the FMLA's Notice Requirements in the Digital Age
- Determining What Kind of Employee Notice - Texting? - Is Sufficient
- Ensuring Best Practices for Delivery of FMLA Notices
- Dealing With the Employee Who Declines FMLA
How to Get the Most out of Certifications of Health Care Providers
- Pinning Down Unknown or Omitted Information in the Certification
- Using a Job Description or List of Essential Functions Proactively
How to Curb Abuses of Intermittent FMLA Leave
- Enforcing an FMLA-Compliant Attendance Policy and Training Managers in Its Application
- Getting Value From the Recertification Process
- Addressing Information That Casts Doubt on the Employee's Stated Reason for the Absence
How to Avoid FMLA Retaliation Claims
- Anticipating the Pitfalls of Having Employees Work While on Leave
- Dealing With Performance or Disciplinary Issues at the Appropriate Time
Credit Information (Sponsored by Lorman Education Services)
- CLE
- SHRM
- HR Certification Institute
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Faculty
Wayne E. Pinkstone, Fox Rothschild LLP
- Partner in Fox Rothschild LLP’s Princeton office
- Focuses his practice on labor and employment matters with an emphasis on assisting in-house counsel, human resources executives and company officials in identifying and solving workplace legal issues
- He works with his clients including employers in the health care, manufacturing, service, retail, technology and financial industries in developing strategies and tactics to help contain costs associated with employee-relations, personnel and labor issues
- Regularly advises on leave and disability matters at the federal and state level and on employment discrimination, diversity, sexual harassment, workplace safety, wage and hour compliance and reductions in the work force
- Also conducts in-house training sessions on such topics as leave and disability, hiring practices, employee discipline, terminations, investigations, harassment prevention and supervisory skills and practices
- Defends employers in federal, state and administrative courts, and has litigated matters before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Handles disputes concerning restrictive covenants and trade secrets and assists clients with the creation of noncompetition, nonsolicitation and nondisclosure agreements
- Frequent speaker on such topics as the interplay between the ADA and FMLA, addressing workplace harassment, FLSA compliance and internal investigations
- Serves as a Volunteer Attorney for The Support Center for Child Advocates, and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association
- Admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
- J.D. degree, Widener University School of Law; B.A. degree, Rutgers University