Western Michigan University complies with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) in granting family and medical leaves of absence to eligible employees. To request a family and medical leave ...

Non-FMLA Medical Leave of Absence Policy Number: HR-39.01 Effective Date: October 2017 Last Revision: May 2020 Responsible Officer: President, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University PURPOSE ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) protects employees who need to take time off from work to care for themselves or others. You might be surprised at some of the situations it can apply to.

Through the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), covered employers are required to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for specified family and medical reasons.

The law ensures that employees can receive 12 weeks of unpaid job-protected leave to recover from a serious medical condition, provide care for a seriously ill family member, or care for a new child.

This is the purpose behind the Family and Medical Leave Act, a federal law that was passed in 1993 to help employees balance their work responsibilities with family demands.

Where might providers most easily fall afoul of the law concerning Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) requests or actions? The FMLA allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of ...

Judith Lichtman talked about about the Family and Medical Leave Act, and her organization's role in crafting the act, which was passed in 1998. Topics included what the act accomplished, the ...

WASHINGTON—Democrats are renewing their push for a national paid time off policy for medical reasons and caregiving, despite long odds of passing such legislation in the newly divided Congress.

Furthermore, these proposals ignore existing evidence about workers’ leave-taking: Only 21 percent of workers used leave under the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to care for a new ...