FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act)

When employees need to attend to seriously-ill children, parents, or to newly-born or adopted infants, or even to their own serious illness, employees need reassurance that they will not have to choose between job security and personal needs at home. In addition, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has been amended to extend protection to employees who require leave to care for family members injured while on active military duty or to handle a "qualifying exigency" associated with a covered military member.



This training will concentrate on following the key aspects of the FMLA. As with other HR Classroom trainings, employers can fully document trainee activity, and your organization’s own policy can also be inserted directly into the training.

• Employer coverage and individual eligibility
• Entitlement to leave
  • How is the 12-month period in which leave is taken determined?
  • Can FMLA leave be substituted for paid leave?
  • What is intermittent leave?
  • What is considered a serious health condition entitling an employee to FMLA leave?
  • Who is considered an acceptable health care provider?
• Maintenance of health benefits during leave
  • How are health benefits maintained during FMLA leave?
  • Other benefits
• Job restoration after leave
  • "Key" employee exception
• Notice and certification of the need for FMLA leave
  • What may be required of employees seeking to use FMLA leave
  • Medical certification required of employees
  • DOL certification of health care provider
  • What is considered acceptable medical certification?
  • Who designates leave as a FMLA leave?
• Employer notices
  • FMLA posting
  • Your employer's FMLA policy
  • Designation of FMLA leave
  • DOL prototype designation of FMLA notice
• Certification of Health Care Provider for Military Family Leave
• Recertification
• Fitness for Duty Certification
• Interaction of FMLA, ADA and workers' compensation
  • FMLA and workers' compensation
  • FMLA, the ADA and workers' compensation
• Effect of FMLA on COBRA continuation coverage
• GINA and FMLA
• FMLA recordkeeping requirements
• Enforcement of the FMLA
• Effect on other laws
• Quizzes and final review quiz

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