When — and How– to Require Certification of FMLA Leave Requests
Welcome back to the confusing world of FMLA. Last week’s post (which, if you missed, you can find here) established, generally when an employee is and is not eligible for unpaid, job (and benefits)...
View ArticleIs Your Employee Abusing Her FMLA Leave?
We are once again back with Splendiferous Supermarket and Betty the Boss. Splendiferous is really having some FMLA challenges.(Click here and here for review.) Three months ago, Crafty Caroline,...
View ArticleIs Intermittent FMLA Giving You a Chronic Headache?
I know last week I said we’d talk about temporary employees and FMLA–but I remembered afterward that I already blogged about that here. So let’s face down that intimidating monster challenge known...
View ArticleIntermittent FMLA — and More Recurring Issues
Last week we met Carl the Cashier, at Splendiferous Supermarket, who has been taking intermittent FMLA so that he can received needed care, following his diagnosis of and surgery for cancer. (Click...
View ArticleFMLA and Union Contracts May Be More Than We Bargained For
If you’ve been following us at The EmpLAWyerologist these last few weeks, you’ve gotten a taste of just how complicated FMLA issues can get. What happens when an employee needs a leave of absence and...
View ArticleCan an Ineligible Employee Get FMLA Leave?
Wait is this a trick question or has the writer (yours truly) lost her marbles? (Are those options mutually exclusive?) An employee ineligible for FMLA leave, by definition can’t get FMLA leave, right?...
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