Get To Know Your Rights When Breastfeeding at Work August was Breastfeeding Awareness Month and a good time to consider breastfeeding mothers’ right to pump at work. Up until 2010, there was no federal law requiring employers to provide pumping accommodations for...
Who is Considered an FMLA "Key Employee"? Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), eligible employees are entitled to take up to 12 weeks of protected leave every year to attend to certain medical and family matters. They are also entitled to 26 weeks to care...
The Case The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals – the federal appellate court for Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin and one of the country’s thirteen federal appellate courts – has decided that an employer may segregate its employees based upon their race so long as there...
