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HR Alert: FMLA Leave Covers Travel Time to Medical Appointments

Written by Lisa Coppola on January 12, 2026. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Human resources professionals and management teams regularly field questions about intermittent FMLA leave, especially when medical appointments are involved. A new opinion letter from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) provides...

HR Alert: Work-Life Balance

Written by Lisa Coppola on October 12, 2023. Posted in Business, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

Although business owners and C Suite folks can get tired of hearing about work-life balance, we know that Americans on average work for an extra 400 hours annually compared to their counterparts in other developed nations....

HR Alert: FMLA Refresher

Written by Lisa Coppola on August 10, 2023. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

It’s been a long, hot summer. Time for a nice, cold . . . FMLA refresher! Business owners, human resources professionals, and company managers – do you remember all the criteria that allow an employee to use FMLA leave? Let’s...

HR Alert: Brand New Law Requires Time Off for CV19 Vaccine

Written by Lisa Coppola on March 15, 2021. Posted in Business, Compliance, COVID 19, Employment.

On March 13, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation (Labor Law § 196-c and Civil Service Law § 159-c) impacting all employers in New York. The new law allows public and private employees time off to receive the COVID-19...

HR Alert: New York Issues Proposed Regulations for Paid Sick Leave

Written by Lisa Coppola on December 7, 2020. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

We previously reported on New York’s enactment of Paid Sick Leave (“PSL”), for which accruals began on September 30, 2020 and become available for employees to use beginning January 1, 2021. More recently, we reported on the...

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HR Alert: Practical Guidance on New York’s Paid Sick Leave Law

Written by Lisa Coppola on October 22, 2020. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

As we previously reported, New York’s new Paid Sick Leave (PSL) requires all employers to provide sick leave each year. For very small employers with four or fewer employees, they must provide 40 hours of PSL annually – it’s...

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HR Alert: Department of Labor Announces New FMLA Forms

Written by Lisa Coppola on July 29, 2020. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has released new forms for employers and employees to use when an employee requests Family and Medical Leave (FMLA). They’re free to access on the DOL’s website. The new forms are...

HR Alert: NLRB Eases Standard For Employee Discipline Related To Profane Outbursts

Written by Lisa Coppola on July 28, 2020. Posted in Business, Compliance, Employment, Entrepreneurship.

On July 21, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board (commonly referred to as the NLRB) eased the standard for judging whether an employer can discipline an employee for abusive or offensive language used during the course...

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