Employment Law

If you own a small business or run an HR department, you've probably encountered this issue. An employee -- let's call him Gary -- takes leave to have surgery and post-operative physical therapy. As you probably know, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act...

Back in May, employers here in Tennessee and across the U.S. began scrambling to make the necessary adjustments after the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it was issuing new overtime rules that, once implemented on their December 1 deadline, would increase...