Employers offer a variety of leave benefits ranging from paid or unpaid sick and vacation leave, personal days, holidays, bereavement leave and jury duty. Generally, these benefits are negotiated and a matter of agreement between an employer and an employee (or the employee’s representative) and are set forth in an employment contract, policy manual or […]

On January 16, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear four new cases on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage before the current session ends in June. Because of the split in federal appeals courts, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two separate issues. Couples seeking to marry can raise that issue, and […]

Dating back to 1995, an Administrative Memorandum (#1-95) of the Nebraska Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS), a division of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has banned foster home licensing of homes of “persons who identify themselves as homosexual” or persons who are “unrelated, unmarried adults residing together.” This policy […]