Sick Leave

The American Bar Association has weighed in on a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court over whether a lawyer in private practice hired by a city can claim qualified immunity from a...

* Cigna's Vocational Support Services program provides preventive services for customers on intermittent family medical leave * Personalized services help enrolled employees remain productive and on the job * Certified counselors make services...

An employer may be liable for firing a pregnant employee after being informed that she planned on taking maternity leave after she became eligible under the Family and Medical Leave Act, the 11th...

In enacting the self-leave provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act, was Congress seeking to address gender discrimination in the workplace That was the question at the center of the debate Wednesday...

GPs cannot rid themselves of all involvement in long-term sick certification, says Dr Rob Hampton. If there are any GPs who will mourn the loss of responsibility for long-term sickness certification, I have...

Gov. Chris Christie's administration pointed out how the private sector handles unused sick leave as he continued to make the case that the state should change the system for public workers. Christie has...

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Festivus, the fictional December holiday popularized by TV's "Seinfeld," featured an annual airing of grievances, and thousands of nurses across the country celebrated the ritual with a flurry of union activity as the...

For the last three decades, Paul Polak has dedicated himself to an idea that many find radical: the proposition that corporations can help the 2.6 billion people in the world living on less...

HEADNOTE // JUST FOR FUN // IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Sick season is upon us: According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, most companies (34 percent) identify the first quarter of the year (January through...

Shaffer v. American Medical Association, 7th Cir., No. 10-2117 (Oct. 18, 2011). The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) prohibits employers from interfering with an employee's right to take leave that the employee...

HEADNOTE Objective The aim of this study was to examine whether sleep problems predict subsequent sickness absence among middle-aged public sector employees. Methods The data included 5391 female and 1454 male employees of...

HEADNOTE Objectives The aims of this study were to examine reciprocal longitudinal associations between exposure to workplace bullying and symptoms of psychological distress and to investigate how self-labeled victimization from bullying explains the...

HEADNOTE Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 4-week primary prevention program (vocationally oriented multidisciplinary early rehabilitation or VOMR) in reducing the risk of long-term work disability...

HEADNOTE Objectives During the past decade, common mental disorders (CMD) have emerged as a major public and occupational health problem in many countries. Several instruments have been developed to measure the influence of...

Tax-exempt entities may establish as many as three types of tax-favored retirement plans. They may, of course, establish qualified retirement plans. They may also establish Sec. 403(b) plans, generally known as tax-sheltered annuities....

It is easy to get the impression from media outlets and groups promoting sustainable growing that large-scale farming is not sustainable. Adjectives like "industrial" and "corporate" are used in front of the word...

HEADNOTE Why do many lubrication tracking methods fall short? A solution: separating lubrication from PM to focus on lubrication reliability Industrial facilities often believe they have equipment lubrication covered with existing tools and...

Byline: Jim Gordon I was ordained as an Episcopal priest just Wednesday, and already I've been asked, "How do you reconcile a priest's calling with the sometimes cutting way the journalist in you...