Essays on FMLA

Employee Benefits Plans For Small Businesses

Employee benefits are very crucial in the lives of employees together with their families. Employees will consider benefits if they are to work for an employer. There are those benefits that employers must provide as required by the state while others are optional and it is the employer who decides whether they can offer the benefits or not. Most benefits provided include employee social security, unemployment insurance taxes, employee compensations, disability insurance, leave benefits, family, and medical leave (United States Small Business Administration, 2017). On the contrary, optional benefits may include COBRA benefits, employee incentive programs, health insurance, and ...

Pursuant to a proposal elevated by Ms. Bridget Stone, Supervisor for Customer Service Department, that a Customer Service Representative, Ms. Annette Green, be dismissed from her job due to violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), I am hereby documenting essential facts of the incident for your review and recommendation for appropriate action. Ms. Green filed for vacation leave but to be used to take care of a very sick mother. The leave should have been filed under FLMA . Likewise, Ms. Green exceeded the leave period by one (1) week without notice nor approval of her supervisor. ...

I. Components of the Family Medical Leave Act The Family and Medical Leave Act that was signed in 1993 aims give employees some time-off from their work. This is to give them more time to spend with their families, care for a sick family member or even to recuperate from their own health concerns without having to give up their employment. The key components of the FMLA are that employed men and women are given up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave from work. The following could be the reasons to file for a medical leave under the FMLA, ...

Response to other PPT 332

Funding CHIP The discussion covers the essence of the insurance fund that is significant to children. The program covers various areas including, healthcare, physical therapy, dental care, language and speech therapies and occupational therapy. The issue with the Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP) highlights the plight of children. There is the need to renew the approach that the Congress uses when funding the program. Often the program is funded in line with Medicare and Medicaid The potential stakeholders for the program concerned 18-year-old children. In the US, they are more than 8 million children who have no insurance aids ...

The Family Medical Leave Act is a U.S. federal piece of legislation under the US Department of Labor which is aimed at providing employees with job security. It is designed to protect employees from any adverse actions by their employers whenever they are absent from work due to child adoption, child birth, serious personal illness or that of a close member of the family and moral support for a member of the army who has been called to active duty (Susser, 2004, p. 172). It provides an unpaid leave that guarantees an employee’s reinstatement to the same position ...

Item 1

- The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a law requiring all employers with group health insurance coverage to grant its employees with unpaid yet job-protected leaves without the postponement of their health insurance, subject to their eligibility. Whereas the FMLA allows employers to let their employees with family and medical problems go on leave without pay, it nevertheless requires them to preserve the job positions and health insurance benefits of eligible employees. Employees eligible under the FMLA include full and part-time employees with a weekly working duration of, or exceeding 50% of a normal workweek, which roughly corresponds to 40 ...

- Happy Valley Inc Case Study - If Happy Valley Inc. did anything wrong, what was it? Good faith bargaining between the union and the employer requires the employer to provide the union representative with information regarding employment data (Walsh, 2012). Good faith does not require specification in legal agreements. It is presumed the parties involved will act fairly and honestly in order to maintain mutual rights to the benefits of the agreement. The NLRA requires good faith bargaining by every employer working with a union so an agreement is reached. In the instance of Happy Valley ...

Business Law

Business Law - The three ethical frameworks discussed by Halbert and Ingulli (2012) include free market ethics, utilitarianism and deontology (rights and duties). Free market ethics focuses on the main objective of the business to be profitable. In this case, the manager has the sole responsibility to improve the value of investments from shareholders. Therefore, if the manager fails to run the company, he is answerable to the company owner. Money-making must also conform to the fundamental rules of the society. For example, there is a growing demand of oil all over the world, while there is renewable energy, ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave under particular circumstances. The act allows employees to take leave if they are incapacitated, to take care of a child or a relative unable to perform daily activities and maternity leave. There are countries with better family leave policies compared to the United States. For instance, Germany provides 15 weeks maternity leave divided into pre and post natal and up to three years rearing leave with two years being fully paid until the child reaches eight years. Denmark, Austria and France also give longer paid leaves ...

Introduction

The Family and Medical Leave Act is a federal law in the United States of America that requires all covered employers to provide to employees unpaid and job-protected leaves whenever there arises medical and family reasons (Budd et al. 2003). Such reasons may include, among others: pregnancy, illnesses, adoption and family military leave. This law is administered by the State’s Wage and Hour Division.

Enactment date

This bill was signed into law on 5th, 1993, taking effect on 1993, August 5th. During Bill Clinton’s first term in office, the bill was a major agenda. The intention was to find a good balance ...

Background

Christopher Millea a Marine who participated in the first Gulf War suffers from a post-traumatic stress disorder accountable to his involvement in the war. He has developed a situation of suffering unpredictable pain attacks and exhaustion. These situations have necessitated frequent work time off on short notice. Since 2001, Millea had been working for a tri-state commuter rail road, the Metro-North. Millea applied for special leave in 2005 under the FMLA for special leave, an application that was approved by Metro-North granting him sixty days of intermittent leave for the year 2006 (LexisNexis, 2).

Events leading to the lawsuit

Millea was under the supervision of one Earl Vaughn ...

Critically evaluate the extent to which the culture of different countries affects the way that HR is managed. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least three different countries. The influence of culture is felt at every stage of Human Resource Management right from the selection and recruitment of staffing to training, evaluation, feedback and exit interviews. It is very important, therefore, to be aware of the differences in cultural nuances to effectively work in a culturally diverse organization. It is not possible to know every cultural norm of different cultures but an awareness of the existence of these ...

The Debate Concerning Salaries for Stay-at-Home Mothers

Abstract Motherhood is, according to investigative reporting, statistical analysis, and common knowledge by mothers, a more than full-time job. If all of the jobs mothers must do were assigned hourly wages, the overall value of a stay-at-home mothers’ work would equal more than the average income of a typical American family. Some experts and celebrities believe that women should get a salary if they are stay-at-home mothers. Other people believe that stay-at-home mothers should not get a salary. Each side has more than one reason to support their beliefs. The current American political, cultural, and financial situation makes giving stay-at-home mothers a salary unfeasible. ...

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Paternity Leave Rights Needed for U.S. Fathers

Introduction

Regarding parental leave from employment when a child is born, that leave is termed “maternity leave” if it is for the mother, and “paternity leave” if it is for the father. The reasons for granting working mothers such leave are fairly clear (both prior to and following the birth), but the reasons for allowing the father such leave are perhaps less obvious. Relevant issues include the reasons for granting paternity leave, how the U.S. compares with other countries in that regard, the impacts of men taking paternity leave, whether it should be paid ...

Abstract

Conflicts in the workplace are common and team leaders and management need to have the necessary knowledge of causes, indicators and skills to manage them. The conflicts can either be positive contributing towards realization of better results or negative deterring productivity and output.The passing of the FMLA led to many organizations re drafting their labor policies in order to be in line with the government requirements. Conflict in teams is a common occurrence and team leaders need to possess the necessary knowledge on conflict management. Conflicts are caused by various issues such as, members having different goals, using different ...

1. HIV is regarded as a disability under ADA act, categorized under physical disability from time of infection, persons with HIV are taken to be more infectious this makes them be taken as disabled, also a wide protection is guaranteed to positive persons. Interpretation of the ADA act deals with persons with HIV/AIDS, it allows provisions for people with disability either you were born while disabled or accidents. A disable person can work and participate in daily routines. Under the ADA a bill was passed to allow persons with disability are involved in day to day programs in society with no unequal ...

Question 1: Observing a nurse manager

Having observed the nurse manager for one hour on two occasions, it was apparent that the nurse manager was a transactional leader. This could be seen from how the nurse manager related with junior nurses; the nurse manager was the one giving orders around while the junior nurses have to follow the orders. On several occasions, the nurse manager was seen complimenting some junior nurse for their good work. Despite the nurse manager exhibiting transactional leadership, the relationship between this nurse and the junior nurses seemed to be positive since for more than once, the nurse manager could be seen ...

Abstract

The United States also has its fair share of employment conflicts and issues that have shook its sheer foundation throughout the years. Some Americans and overseas employees found themselves discriminated for various reasons: from their race up to their health; others would be paid in extremely meager wages despite their overtime work or their capacity to work despite their disabilities. With these issues and complications in mind, the US federal government and the US legislative assemblies had created several laws, which not only gives power to the employment sector, but also outlines the rights, benefits and services that should ...

When talking about diversity, people always tend to define it in terms of difference in race, sex, socioeconomic status, religion, etc. and the treatment of other people in relation to these differences. When taken merely from the context of society, diversity would only be viewed as discrimination by prototypes. Prototypes refer to the standardized mindset of people from other culture, race, religion, etc. towards particular people. For instance, black people are viewed as slaves and as bad people, even if they are not at all or maybe not every black person is. Making prototypes is a social issue that leads ...

One of the errors of the Widgets Inc. with respect to Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is that it fails to post substantive notices of rights. Each supervisor covered by FMLA has to post a profound notice of rights. However, only few employers take caution in abiding by this rule. It is important that they keep such notices posted at all time on its premises especially in conspicuous places in which employees work. Notices should explain the Act's provisions as well as provide relevant information in relation to the procedures to be followed in filing complaints against violations of ...

Situation A

The family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 govern the rights of employees who are eligible to its protection. This law provides flexibility to employees’ working life so as to meet unplanned for events in their life such as illness of a family member as one is entitled to a 12 week leave. It entitles the employees’ to leave, maintain health benefits on leave and get their jobs restored after leave and clearly outlines the requirements for notice and certification of the need for leave and also protects employees’ who request for leave (Ford, 2000). This law applies to both ...

On a trans-global scale, parental leave for newborns and adoptees works. In 1993, the American Federal Government passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) into law; in 2012, only about half of American workers enjoy coverage under this act. In the United States, the topic of parental leave and the appropriate legislation to establish far-reaching parental leave is still under discussion. There are a number of arguments for and against maternal and paternal leave for parents of newborns and adoptees currently under consideration in America. Many of these theories have strong arguments; however, in practice parental leave works. The appropriate topic ...