Assignment: Employment Law Essay
Write an essay about The Family and Medical Leave Act.
The Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), a federal law, provides eligible employees with 12 weeks of unpaid leave during each 12-month period of time to use in connection with the: (1) birth or adoption of a child; (2) care of a child, spouse, or parent with a "serious medical condition; or (3) care of the employee's own "serious medical condition." Recent amendments apply to cases involving "military caregiver leave." The New Jersey Family Leave Act ("NJFLA") provides for 12 weeks of unpaid leave during each 24-month period. Many provisions of the State law are similar to the FMLA. However, under New Jersey's law, no leave rights are provided for an employee to care for his or her own serious medical condition.
The Gerety case involves the plaintiff's claim under the N.J. Law Against Discrimination that the employer's unpaid medical leave policy resulted in disparate impact discrimination against women. Notably, the policy in question provided for 26 weeks of unpaid medical leave, which is more than twice as the law requires under either the FMLA or NJFLA.
Do not use the following as resources:
Law firm web sites
Law firms are trying to solicit clients. In Employment law, law firms usually represent either employers or workers - few represent both. As such, their web sites are designed to attract the clients they seek to represent. Therefore, the information contained therein may not be completely accurate as the information provided may be skewed to either a management or employee perspective.
Websites such as Wikipedia or ehow
Information found on those sites may not be reliable.
Use the following format: Overview, Opinion Statements, Resource Citations.
Use the headings to divide your work into the 3 required areas in your paper.
Overview
Provide an overview of your topic using at least two resources.
Highlight the most important concepts.
The overview should be no more than 500 words. That's about 7 - 8 average length paragraphs.
Do not place your opinions in the overview. This is an academically oriented portion of the assignment. Your opinions are welcome in the next portion of the paper.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.