Guest Blog by Kathryn S. Piscitelli
On February 5, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division issued final amended regulations concerning the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that include new provisions relating to FMLA rights of servicemembers, military families, and flight crew employees. You can read the new regulations here . I'm happy to report that the Department adopted several suggested revisions from among those NELA submitted last year on the then-proposed amendments.
In particular, NELA’s comments helped shape new regulations relating to the “eligible employee” status of returning servicemembers in two ...