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Family Medical Leave Act

This guide provides specific resources for research on the Family Medical Leave Act.

Books that cover the basics

Pracatice Guides & News

WestlawNext - Click on Secondary Sources, then Labor & Employment for:

  • CCH Labor & Employment
  • Employment Coordinator
  • Wage & Hour Law: Compliance & Practice
  • Employment Alert
  • Employment Law Daily
  • Employment Law Update
  • Westlaw Labor & Employment Daily Briefing

LexisAdvance - Lexis has many good practice guides and news sources such as:

  • BNA's Wages and Hours Manual
  • Employee Rights Litigation: Pleading and Practice
  • Labor & Employment Law

You can use Browse Sources (to the rigth above the red search bar) to locate these by title. Or you can search in all relevant secondary sources by limiting the Practice Area & Topic tab to Labor & Employment Law, running your search, and then navigating to the Second tab.

BNA's Labor and Employment Law Resource Center is THE source for up-to-date information and news in employment law. At the site, navigate to the Wages, Hours & Leave tab. Here you'll be able to find the BNA Manual on Wages, Hours & Leave, other practice guides, news from the courts, and links to regulations. 

Law Reviews

There are several law reviews and journals that specialize in labor & employment law. These include:

  • ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law
  • American University Labor & Employment Law Forum
  • Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law
  • Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal
  • Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal
  • Employment & Industrial Relations Law
  • Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

To search these and other journals, you can use Westlaw, Lexis, HeinOnline, or GoogleScholar. Remember that articles on the Family & Medical Leave Act could appear in any journal, not just those that specialize in labor & employment law.

Google Scholar Search