LEGAL NOTICES
FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (FMLA)
Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Eligible employees who work for a covered employer can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12-month period for
the following reasons:
• The birth of a child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care;
• To bond with a child (leave must be taken within one year of the child’s birth or placement);
• To care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a qualifying serious health condition;
• For the employee’s own qualifying serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the employee’s
job;
• For qualifying exigencies related to the foreign deployment of a military member who is the employee’s spouse, child,
or parent.
An eligible employee who is a covered servicemember’s spouse, child, parent, or next of kin may also take up to 26 weeks of F MLA
leave in a single 12-month period to care for the servicemember with a serious injury or illness.
Benefits & Protections
An employee does not need to use leave in one block. When it is medically necessary or otherwise permitted, employees may take
leave intermittently or on a reduced schedule.
Employees may choose, or an employer may require, use of accrued paid leave while taking FMLA leave. If an employee substitutes
accrued paid leave for FMLA leave, the employee must comply with the employer’s normal paid leave policies.
While employees are on FMLA leave, employers must continue health insurance coverage as if the employees were not on leave.
Upon return from FMLA leave, most employees must be restored to the same job or one nearly identical to it with equivalent pay,
benefits, and other employment terms and conditions.
An employer may not interfere with an individual’s FMLA rights or retaliate against someone for using or trying to use FMLA l eave,
opposing any practice made unlawful by the FMLA, or being involved in any proceeding under or related to the FMLA.
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