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“I’m not the one who’s sick.” Between 35-plus years in HR, including thousands of leave and accommodation matters, and now my own law practice, that line comes up more than almost any other. An employee’s parent, spouse, or child gets…
You asked for time off to go to your kid’s school meeting, and your manager acted like you were asking for a personal favor instead of something the law actually protects. This shows up constantly as the school year starts…
Your spouse came home on leave from deployment, and your employer treated your request for time off like an inconvenience instead of something the law actually addresses. This is common enough, with California’s large military and veteran population, that the…
If your business has San Francisco employees, the eligibility clock you have been tracking for the city’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance is about to change, and the change arrives on a size-based schedule that is easy to miss until it…
“I stopped mentioning it,” she said. “I figured it was just something I had to push through on my own.” The exhaustion, the disrupted sleep, the trouble concentrating by afternoon: she assumed none of it was her employer’s problem to…
“I did everything my doctor told me to do. I still lost my leave.” That is what it feels like from the employee’s side when the second-opinion process goes wrong. Here is what actually happened in a real case, Brown…
You were laid off. Meta called it a reduction in force, about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of the company, as part of a push to become an “AI-first” company. Twenty-six of those employees didn’t accept the official explanation. They filed…
You used a vacation day for your kid’s school conference, and it did not occur to you that you might not have needed to. Or you skipped it, because asking felt like it would cost you something with your manager….
You told your manager you needed a schedule adjustment because of a medical condition. Your manager said the position did not allow for that. You did not push back. You assumed the answer was final and that there was nothing…
Many California SMBs outsource leave administration to a third-party administrator. The TPA receives the leave requests, issues the designation notices, tracks the entitlement, and communicates with the employee. The employer writes a check and assumes the compliance obligation has been…
