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| May 27, 2016

When an employer learns that an employee's absence might qualify for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, it is required to give him certain notifications. If the employee denies receiving the notifications, the employer must have a way of proving they were given to him....

NONE | June 20, 2016

When can an employer turn down a holiday request? Can an employee who has recently started work take annual leave? What happens to accrued but untaken annual leave on the termination of employment? Ashok Kanani looks at some scenarios that employers commonly face when employees request annual leave....

| July 20, 2016

In the first half of 2016 there were fewer requests for residency in the territory from Portuguese citizens, according to data released by the Public Security Police Force (PSP). The number of requests decreased by 17.3 percent (amounting to 13 fewer requests) with an even bigger decrease in the number of approvals of these requests, falling from 77.3 percent (58 requests) of total requests in 2015 to only 45.2 percent (28 requests) in 2016....

HR Dive | January 14, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has limited joint employer liability under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in final regulations published Jan. 12. The rule, slated to be published in the Federal Register Jan. 16, spells out the circumstances under which more than one business can be held liable for FLSA violations. It largely adopts the "four-factor balancing test" from DOL's proposed version of the rule while also clarifying that an employee's "economic dependence&...