ABA’s Summary of 2015 FMLA Court Decisions

By Jeff Nowak – 2/19/2016 This is one of the most exciting days of the FMLA year for me. Literally, one of those “The phone books are here!” days. Why? Every mid-February or so, the American Bar Association’s Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee publishes a comprehensive report of FMLA decisions handed down by the federal…

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Slower Service, Higher Costs: USPS’s Phase II Debacle

February 20, 2016 The U.S. Postal Service’s aborted attempt to save money by consolidating its processing facilities backfired: It actually increased costs in 2015, USPS officials recently acknowledged. Higher transportation expenses from Phase II of the USPS’s “Network Rationalization” effort more than wiped out the program’s savings on labor and parts, the Postal Service told…

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