COMPLYING WITH FMLA INTERMITTENT LEAVE REQUIREMENTS

COMPLYING WITH FMLA INTERMITTENT LEAVE REQUIREMENTS The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requires some employers to grant eligible employees unpaid leave for family and medical reasons, including intermittent leave. By understanding FMLA’s rules, you,... More

COMPLYING WITH FMLA INTERMITTENT LEAVE REQUIREMENTS The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requires some employers to grant eligible employees unpaid leave for family and medical reasons, including intermittent leave. By understanding FMLA’s rules, you, as an employer, can minimize your inconvenience and avoid violating the act. Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson has many excellent employment attorneys to ensure compliance with FMLA. Learn the requirements If you employ 50 or more employees, the FMLA rules specifically require you to allow “intermittent leave,” defined as “FMLA leave taken in separate blocks of time” because of a single qualifying reason. Essentially, the act enables employees to take predictable or sporadic blocks of time as unpaid leave — in hours, days or weeks — if medically necessary for weekly physical therapy sessions or random flare-ups of conditions such as asthma, for example. But your hands aren’t completely tied — you retain some rights. When a worke Less