Family and Medical Leave Act Poster Notices
Every employer covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) must display FMLA poster notices in the workplace, which explain employees’ rights under the law. These notices must be posted in a conspicuous place to permit employees to readily read them. Most employers place them in break rooms.
Recently, while doing research for a client who was not paid her overtime, we found a plethora of scummy websites selling these posters to gullible business owners. However, the Department of Labor creates the poster, which thanks to our tax dollars, is free. These websites are literally taking something that is widely available for free and selling it to moronic business owners.
How can these websites do this? People typically only click the top links. These websites are able to outrank the Department of Labor’s website so that their sites appear higher in search engines.
Take it from a millennial, when doing any online research you should always check a few sites deeper in the search results, as well as, the top ones. Hopefully this blog post, which links to the totally free posters created by the government, will outrank those sites, beating them at their own game.
Family and Medical Leave Act Poster
For example, if an employer has employees subject to the FMLA, that employer must post, and keep posted, this notice explaining the law’s major provisions and telling employees how to file a complaint.
The notice is available on the Department of Labor’s website, which states, “All covered employers are required to display and keep displayed a poster prepared by the U.S. Department of Labor summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.”