Business Law Jurisdiction 310.1.5 Labor and Employment LawSituation A – Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993The Law on The Family and Medical Leave of 1993 is a federal law that was passed to protect an employee's job in the event of leave due to personal or family illness. It allows an employee to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for themselves or a family member to help with serious medical issues. During this leave, the employee's benefits, position, health benefits and compensation are protected to the extent they meet the criteria of the law. The employee is also protected against employer retaliation. It must first be determined that Employee A works for a company that is required to honor the FMLA. An employee must work for a company that has at least 50 employees within a 75-mile radius. Based on the information provided, Company Employee A is eligible for FMLA based on company size. In order to determine whether or not Employee A is covered by the FMLA, we must evaluate their situation and compare their scenario to the FMLA guidelines. Employee A has worked at company X for 2 years. The FMLA requires that an employee be with a company for 12 months and have worked 1,250 hours in the last 12 months. Based on the information provided, Employee A has worked for the company for 2 years, we can only assume that in the last month he has worked the required 1,250 hours. Employee A appears to be eligible based on length of employment. The final factor that will be used to determine whether employee A is covered by the FMLA is...... middle of paper...... on C - Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 protects people with disabilities. An employer cannot refuse employment to someone if there is no undue difficulty for the company to make arrangements for the employee or applicant to complete the job. In this situation, Company X states that the only reason Applicant A was denied employment was because it would cause Company Indeed, for the candidate to be able to carry out his work, he should have been able to access the seven floors of the headquarters. This would have required the company to lower 2 of the elevator buttons by 4 inches. The company did not violate the law because the expenses would have put the company in a difficult situation in order to meet the required customization of the elevators..