Recertification of Intermittent Leave Violates FMLA, New Jersey Appellate Division Holds

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 241-185 to pass H.R. 800, the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) of 2007.” With its passage by the House, organized labor’s efforts to overhaul the Nation’s labor laws cleared its first legislative hurdle. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate that will take up either the House-passed bill or a companion bill to be introduced by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA).

On January 10, 2012, a bill was introduced (A1420) that would require contractors and subcontractors engaged in any public works contract subject to prevailing wage requirements to keep wage records not only showing the name, craft or trade, and the actual hourly rate of wages paid to each worker employed by the contractor under the

On May 6, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom of California issued Executive Order (EO) N-62-20, creating a temporary rebuttable presumption that employees working outside of their homes who test positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, may receive workers’ compensation benefits. In doing so, the governor simplified the process for sick employees to seek certain wage replacement benefits, and therefore sought to encourage ill employees to stay home to reduce the spread of COVID-19.