Here's what to know about the FMLA: FMLA allows for 12 weeks of leave during a 12-month period – but the leave is unpaid. Since this law requires employers to let their workers take time off to ...

Effective managerial training and prompt medical certification can go a long way toward ensuring compliance, Littler ...

I took a combination of paid and unpaid leave with my first child. I felt isolated and was stressed about our finances.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter on Nov. 8, 2024, affirming that employees may use Family and ...

Guaranteed access to paid family leave — and, specifically, paid parental leave — is one part of the solution to help ...

A Michigan federal district court granted summary judgment to Madison District Pubic Schools on the claims of a bus driver with medical issues that he was discharged in retaliation for taking leave in ...

Many common types of extended leave fall under the Family and Medical Leave Act, or FMLA. The FMLA is a federal labor law that guarantees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave during the year to take ...

Employers have a name for this kind of FMLA situation: intermittent leave, that which occurs at irregular intervals. According to Jeff Nowak, shareholder at Littler Mendelson and author of the ...

An eligible employee may take FMLA leave of up to 12 weeks per leave year (26 weeks in the case of leave to care for a seriously-ill family member who is member of the Armed Forces, National Guard or ...

An employee must be employed by the University for at least 12 months (consecutive or non-consecutive) and have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period preceding the date FMLA leave ...

FMLA is a leave of absence of up to 12 weeks in a 12-month period. Available to employees who have been employed for at least one year, have worked 1,250 hours in the 12-month period preceding the ...