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Responding to the overwhelming changes employers face under the new FMLA regulations, one employer-side L&E Firm has dedicated an entire section of its website to helping businesses comply with the rules.

In case you’ve been under a rock (or don’t work in HR, I guess), the DOL’s sweeping new regulations on the FMLA go into effect today, January 16.

The Department of Labor has just released its first significant changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act since the law was passed in 1993. The regulations make significant changes to the leave available to workers, and the procedure by which the leave must be taken. The new FMLA regulations go into effect on January 16, 2009.

The days of patchwork state statutory control over military leave for families of soldiers may be finally coming to an end. President Bush recently signed a law that expands FMLA leave to cover family members of injured soldiers coming home from war. That, coupled with new FMLA final regulations from the Department of Labor will [...]