Tom Spiggle

Have questions about your potential legal case? Our Legal Leverage program has you covered! A smart employer will ask you for medical information or a doctor’s note only when absolutely necessary. It’s not in the employer’s interest to know a lot of medical information about its workers. That knowledge could potentially be used against it […]

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows a covered employee to take up to 12 weeks of leave to provide care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition. There’s no limitation in the statute as to what is involved in the “care” of that person. If an employer tells you

Most judges are very busy people. They have high caseloads involving many serious problems. Given their time constraints, judges often give employers the benefit of the doubt when it comes to how they handle their employees. Judges don’t want to spend their time second-guessing employment decisions that look legitimate without some evidence to the contrary.