Depending on the severity of your employee’s health condition (or a family member’s health condition), your employee may need to utilize all available time under the FMLA and maybe more.  The only statute that provides absolute job protection for these types of leaves of absence is the FMLA.  But what kind of protections do employees have beyond the twelve weeks.

Areas Covered:-

• Proper calculation of the twelve weeks under the FMLA
• Interaction with leave protection under the FMLA, ADA, and workers’ compensation
• How to handle employees who request an indefinite leave of absence
• Applying your STD and LTD policies
• When can you terminate for failure to return from a leave