Employment Law

As parents age, their adult children may need to take time away from work to care for them. The decision to do so may require an employee to choose between their career and their family. The Family Medical Leave Act, FMLA, provides a solution because it allows...

You may have discovered that, on some occasions, the best part of a job is leaving it. Despite your best efforts, there may have been a conflict between you and your employer or you had requirements to perform duties you found unacceptable. Often, you do not have the...

Georgia and federal law prohibit employers from discriminating on the basis of a disability. As a corollary to this rule, the law also requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to enable disabled employees to do their jobs. Most often, the employee must...

The idea is simple: construction contractors should pay their laborers and subcontractors fairly for the work they perform on publicly funded projects. Indeed, they are required to do so by law. The Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), passed in 1931, establishes that workers be...

You have completed medical school and are about to become a physician. After years of hard work, it is finally time to do the work you are passionate about, but now you must minimize your exposures regarding Stark Law. If you are not careful, your referral processes...

If you got fired or received discipline by your employer because you reported illegal behavior or exercised legal rights, you may have a basis for a wrongful termination case for whistleblowing or retaliation. There are laws that protect you from retaliation when you...

There may come a time where you need to take time away from work to handle health challenges. One of the federal laws that allows employees to take leave without negative consequences for certain medical reasons is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Learn the...