ABSTRACT
While writing this book I attended a full-day workshop in the winter of 1999 on implementing the FMLA in the workplace. Sponsored by a major university’s division of labor and industrial relations, the workshop was geared toward human resource professionals in the private sector. Of the thirty or so attendees, I was the only academic, and perhaps one of only three or four workshop participants who were not in the corporate world. My primary reason for enrolling in the course was to acquire a better understanding of the implementation process at ground zero, or where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. I was curious about the kinds of problems and questions that were surfacing among private-sector administrators six years after the bill was enacted, and as it turned out, about four months before Clinton’s Grambling speech.
