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The Family and Medical Leave Act requires covered employers to grant 12 to 26 weeks of leave to eligible employees for qualified medical and family reasons. These include to care for one’s own serious personal health conditions, to care for a covered family member with a serious health condition, for family military leave for a qualifying exigency, or to care for a seriously injured or ill servicemember or veteran. The FMLA also covers eligible employees after the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child within one year of the placement.

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'Foreseeable' and 'As Soon as Practicable''--2 of FMLA's Key Concepts

FMLA—always rated the number one headache (well, migraine) for HR managers. Learning the definitions of “foreseeable” and “as soon as practicable” helps lessen the pain.
May 20, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

FMLA Leave 101: Use of Return-to-Work Status Reports

Monitoring employees on FMLA leave is one of the many obligations of employers administering FMLA leave of absence for employees. In fact, while the employee is out, employers have several things to monitor:
April 08, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

FMLA Leave 101: Notice of Eligibility and Rights & Responsibilities

Administering FMLA leave can be made easier if you have a clear procedure that employees understand and can easily utilize when the need for leave arises. One critical component of this process is the need to notify employees of whether or not they are eligible for FMLA leave and what their responsibilities are while they’re away. This is where the Notice of Eligibility and Rights & Responsibilities comes into play.
April 08, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

FMLA Can Apply when Domestic Violence Impacts the Workplace

Domestic violence in the workplace has a significant impact on the abused employee as well as the rest of the staff. It can have a significant impact on the victim’s physical and mental health, and can also affect other aspects of the victim’s life, including work. According to Employers Against Domestic Violence, 71 percent of EAP providers dealt with employees being stalked at work by a current or former partner, and 83 percent helped an employee obtain a restraining order.
April 07, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

Parental Leave Newest Addition to FMLA Family

Yesterday’s Advisor featured attorney Susan Shoenfeld’s summary of the changes in the new FMLA regulations; today, more detail on the new parental leave requirement under military exigency leave, plus an introduction to the all-HR-in-one website, HR.BLR.com.
March 18, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 1 Comments

DOL Throws Surprise Birthday Party for FMLA--Final Regulations Issued

It was a surprise birthday party for the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), says Susan Schoenfeld, JD; on February 5, 2013, exactly 20 years after the FMLA was signed, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Final Rule ahead of the planned regulatory schedule.
March 17, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 2 Comments

Can You UNdesignate FMLA Leave?

Yesterday’s Advisor covered many requirements and pitfalls of FMLA designation; today, rules around mistaken designation. Once again, for help we turn to the guide many call “The FMLA Bible.”
March 06, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

Designation of FMLA--First Place Employers Fail?

The list of employers’ FMLA obligations is long and the pitfalls are many. One of the earliest places to make a mistake is in the supposedly simple act of designating the leave as FMLA-qualifying. For help, we turned to the “FMLA Bible.”
March 05, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

The 8 Ways to Stop Intermittent/Reduced Leave Abuse

In yesterday’s Advisor, attorney Drew Alexis offered suggestions for curbing FMLA abuse; today, he summarizes his eight ways to stop abuse, plus we introduce 10-Minute HR Trainer
January 29, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 1 Comments

The 4 Tools for Challenging FMLA Certs

FMLA certifications are certainly one of the most annoying of FMLA challenges, says attorney Drew Alexis. Fortunately, there are four tools available to employers to help with certifications.
January 28, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments
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