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• about flma

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  No. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act permits employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave under certain circumstances:1) When the employee has a serious health condition, certified by a doctor, such as cancer, a stroke or heart attack2) To provide care and support for an immediate family ...
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• FMLA Podcast from Jeff Nowak and Bill Pokorny

  
  FMLA law Family Medical Leave Act update, Latest cases on FMLA Law — Authority: 116
  In this month’s podcast, Franczek Radelet attorneys Jeff Nowak and Bill Pokorny analyze recent FMLA amendments that expand an employee’s right to take leave due to “qualifying exigencies” arising from family members’ military service, and to care for family members injured in the course of military service. ...
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• Exempt employee responding to e-mails while on FMLA

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  No, absolutely not. An employee who is working is, by definition, not on FMLA. By allowing this employee to work and counting that time as FMLA, you are depriving her of her right to time off under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. The FMLA regulations specify that an employee who is working is [...]
  2 days ago

• FMLA

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  This will depend upon how your company chooses to tabulate FMLA. The US Department of Labor has approved 4 different methods. By far the most common method is the rolling calendar, beginning with the first day the employee took a day off under FMLA. If your company is using that method, in the question above, [...]
  6 days ago

• Indiana Intermittent FMLA

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  One of the biggest concerns among employees in Indiana and elsewhere in the U.S. is the federally-sanctioned right of employees to take unscheduled, intermittent leave under FMLA. The Family and Medical Leave Act or FMLA allows this kind of leave, and the U.S. Department of Labor has addressed the issue. A report ...
  6 days ago

• Maternity Leave

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  Indiana does not have a family leave law at the state level. The *12 week* law you are apparently referrig to is the federal FMLA, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. That law permits employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave total for pregnancy, childbirth and baby bonding. However, [...]
  1 week ago

• Answers to tricky HR questions: ‘Key-employee’ provision allows denial of FMLA?

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 139
  Our team of experts fields real-life everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s question: Does the “key-employee” provision of the law allow employers to deny FMLA leave to some employees? Question: We recently were ...
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• Tracking FMLA leave properly: Feds clear up 2 tricky issues

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  The Department of Labor has issued final regs clarifying when time off does — and doesn’t — qualify under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Tracking leave is especially important now as employees are bound to take time off for many reasons around the holidays — it could lead to trouble if they feel their ...
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• Do you know? H1N1 and employees’ leave rights

  
  Ohio Employer's Law Blog — Authority: 419
  The Department of Labor has published two guides for employers trying to navigate H1N1 and employees’ leave and pay rights (both PDFs): Pandemic Flu and the Family and Medical Leave Act: Questions and Answers Pandemic Flu and the Fair Labor Standards Act: Questions and Answers Neither presents ...
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• FLSA and the flu: Making sure your sick-leave policies don’t break the law

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 139
  What’s worse than having a bunch of employees out sick with the pandemic flu? Getting hit with a labor-law violation because of your “flexible” policies that accommodate sick employees. Here’s where good companies run into trouble. They – • Work short-handed while employees are out sick • Shut their ...
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• FLSA and the flu: Making sure your sick-leave policies don’t break the law

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  What’s worse than having a bunch of employees out sick with the pandemic flu? Getting hit with a labor-law violation because of your “flexible” policies that accommodate sick employees. Here’s where good companies run into trouble. They – • Work short-handed while employees are out sick • Shut their ...
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• FMLA and Intermittent Leave

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  As long as you are granting FMLA (intermittent or ongoing) only for a serious health condition, then you are well within your rights as an employer. There is no law that requires you to give an employee 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA, plus an additional 3 weeks of paid leave, for a serious health condition.In [...]
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• Paternal Leave

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  Yes. This is one of the main purposes of FMLA. Pregnancy is always a “serious health condition” under FMLA, and an employee can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to care for a spouse with a serious health condition. This includes intermittent FMLA. Many employers assume that FMLA is only permitted ...
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• Intermittent FMLA in Connecticut

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Employees in Connecticut and throughout the rest of the U.S. are entitled to take unpaid, job-protected leave for a serious health condition by the hour, if they wish, and need not schedule the time off in advance. The practice is called “unscheduled, intermittent FMLA leave.” It is one of the most ...
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• Pandemic Protection for Workers, Families, and Businesses Act (H.R. 4092)

  
  Washington Labor & Employment Wire — Authority: 414
  Core Provisions : This legislation would guarantee up to seven days of paid sick leave for full-time workers infected by a contagious illness, such as the H1N1 virus. Part-time workers would be eligible for paid leave for a number of days or hours to be determined under a formula specified by the Secretary of Labor. ...
  2 weeks ago

• GINA Becomes Effective November 21, 2009: Are You Ready?

  
  Workplace Privacy Counsel — Authority: 100
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) takes effect on November 21, 2009. How does GINA impact employers? GINA does the following: (a) prohibits employers from discriminating against an employee based upon genetic information, (b) places broad restrictions on an employer’s deliberate acquisition of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maternity leave

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  There is no requirement for paid maternity leave in Arizona. The state has no family leave law. Employers with more than 50 workers are covered under the federal FMLA, the Family and Medical Leave Act. The FMLA requires that employers grant up to 12 weeks (total) of unpaid leave for pregnancy, childbirth and baby ...
  2 weeks ago

• FMLA calls offs disruptive to business

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  Unlike reasonable accommodations under ADA, an employer must grant FMLA, even if it is disruptive to business. Under ADA, if an accommodation is an undue hardship, the employer is not required to grant it. There is no such exclusion for FMLA. If the employee is entitled to FMLA, it must be granted, period.  Employees ...
  2 weeks ago

• Donning Time Does Not Count Towards 1250 Hours Requirement Under FMLA

  
  Adjunct Law Prof Blog — Authority: 478
  The Supremes have declined to grant certiorari in a case in which the Seventh Circuit held that an employee could not count towards the 1,250-hour minimum for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) eligibility the three to five minutes she...
  2 weeks ago

• Vacation time

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  No. In order to be eligible for FMLA, the employee must have worked 1,250 hours (for the employer) in the past 12 months. In addition, the employee must have been employed by that employer at least 12 months — although the months need not be consecutive. However, *hours worked* means just that — it does [...]
  2 weeks ago

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