by Jeffrey Sweetland | Feb 18, 2013 | Employment Law, Jeffrey Sweetland
This month we observe the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). That law extended, to employees throughout the United States, FMLA leave rights that Wisconsin employees had already enjoyed for five years under the...
by Jeffrey Sweetland | Apr 18, 2012 | Employment Law, Jeffrey Sweetland
The assault on state employees continues unabated. This time the blow was delivered by the U. S. Supreme Court. In a 5-4 decision issued March 20, 2012, in Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals, the Reagan-Bush-Bush wing of the Court ruled that state government...
