Guest guest Posted May 21, 2002 Report Share Posted May 21, 2002 Anne, FMLA is Family Medical Leave Act. It allows a person to take up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for their own illness or injury or childbirth or for the illness or injury of an immediate family member (spouse/child/parent). Companies with over 50 (it might be 20, but I think it is 50) have to offer FMLA to their employees. Usually, it is a simple 2 page form that the doctor's office must fill out and be returned to your employer. I would suggest keeping a photocopy of it as my ex-company once lost mine. If you have STD (Short Term Disability) benefits through your employer that will pay a portion of your wage while you are out, it can be filed and run concurrently with FMLA though most companies will try to tell you it can't. FMLA can be split up and used for doctor's appointments; reduce your workload to part-time while the doctor thinks it is necessary; used on a per-illness basis. But, once your 480 hours runs out, the company can revert to their normal absenteeism policy. Also, you must first have about 7-8 months in the year prior to asking for FMLA. If you got your job in July or later last year, you probably won't qualify for FMLA. To find out about your job's FMLA information, contact your benefits administrator (could be called many things: Insurance Representative: Employee Benefits Counselor) but they are usually in Human Resources or the main office. Hope this helps some. ~ :-D Re: Work meltdown disaster Hi Em, I work for the federal government and applying for the FMLA has been made very easy and almost automatic for us. When we fill out our leave slips, there is a section that relates to FMLA--all we have to do is check the box that says we want the hours we missed to fall under the FMLA, and then check who it is for--ourselves or a family member. We do NOT have to be out of leave in order to do that (although of course I always am). If we take more than 3 days off at a time, a medical certificate is required. That's it. I would ask whoever handles your payroll about this; someone there should have been through training and be able to answer your questions. Your Human Resources people should have the information as well. If you can't find anything, please email me and let me know and I'll ask someone on my end what you have to do. Good Luck with this. I think you are allowed 270 hours in any one year but can't swear to it. Margaret margd@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 21, 2002 Report Share Posted May 21, 2002 At 07:33 PM 05/21/2002 -0400, wrote: Thank you for the info, -- this is *extremely* helpful. one note, I was told you must be employed with a company for 12 months or one year (I guess it can be cumulatively 12 months if you're part-time?) before you become eligible. I met with our HR departmental person months ago and this is what I was told. It is three months total available time off (based on 40-hour work week); my company rep told me our hospital grants up to four months. We shall see if they were telilng me the truth. Best, Em >FMLA can be split up and used for doctor's appointments; reduce your >workload to part-time while the doctor thinks it is necessary; used on a >per-illness basis. But, once your 480 hours runs out, the company can >revert to their normal absenteeism policy. > >Also, you must first have about 7-8 months in the year prior to asking for >FMLA. If you got your job in July or later last year, you probably won't >qualify for FMLA. > >To find out about your job's FMLA information, contact your benefits >administrator (could be called many things: Insurance Representative: >Employee Benefits Counselor) but they are usually in Human Resources or >the main office. > >Hope this helps some. > >~ :-D > Re: Work meltdown disaster > > > > > Hi Em, > > I work for the federal government and applying for the > FMLA has been made very easy and almost automatic > for us. When we fill out our leave slips, there is a > section that relates to FMLA--all we have to do is check > the box that says we want the hours we missed to fall > under the FMLA, and then check who it is for--ourselves > or a family member. We do NOT have to be out of leave > in order to do that (although of course I always am). If > we take more than 3 days off at a time, a medical > certificate is required. That's it. > > I would ask whoever handles your payroll about this; > someone there should have been through training and > be able to answer your questions. Your Human > Resources people should have the information as well. > If you can't find anything, please email me and let me > know and I'll ask someone on my end what you have to > do. > > Good Luck with this. I think you are allowed 270 hours > in any one year but can't swear to it. > > Margaret > margd@... > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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