Many employers maintain policies that restrict the amount of time an employee can take off from work, or that prohibit employees who are ineligible for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to take time off from work at all even when ill or injured. But a new resource document issued by the EEOC … Continue Reading
A legislative change that seems to have slipped into law with no great fanfare this month revisits the spent convictions regime. On 10 March the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 was amended to reduce the time that must pass before ex-offenders can claim to have a clean record. The Act provides that certain convictions will … Continue Reading