FMLA Eligibility. Employees are considered to be eligible for FMLA leave if they have worked a minimum of 1,250 hours for a covered employer. Employees, to be deemed eligible for FMLA leave, must also work for at least one year at a site where at least 50 employees of the same employer are working within 75 miles.
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If you are eligible for leave under the FMLA (see Question 3), your job will be protected for up to 12 weeks (in any 12-month period) if you need leave to address your own medical issues related to pregnancy, childbirth and recovery (medical leave) or to care for your new baby (family leave).
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The FMLA provides for an employee to take up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave in a calendar year for health-related or family-related reasons if the employee qualifies for the leave by working 1250 hours in the twelve months prior to the leave 11request.
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Special leave entitlement, through FMLA, allows employees, who are eligible, to take a maximum of 26 weeks of leave to take care of a family member who is a covered service member during a single 12-month period.
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Although the FMLA has been in effect for approximately fifteen years, the law is still unsettled as to how to interpret the ―hours worked‖ language of the FMLA as it applies to a reinstated employee. The following case is an example of the problem facing employers, employees, and courts.
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Second, you have worked for your employer for at least 12 months and for at least 1,250 hours during the last year. (If you have worked 25 or more hours for 50 weeks in a year, you have worked the required total of 1,250 hours.
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If you are eligible to take FMLA leave (see Question 3), you can take up to 12 weeks of leave during any 12-month period.If your family member is a wounded servicemember, you may be eligible for up to 26 weeks of leave during any 12-month period. 19. My mother-in-law has just been hospitalized.
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The federal FMLA sets the minimum standard — 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected family and medical leave. If your state has a more generous law than the FMLA, then you can take advantage of the more generous provisions.As of June 2014, 20 states provide some type of leave that is more generous than the FMLA.
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16 FMLA leave may be taken all at once or intermittently. 17 For an employee to be eligible for FMLA leave, he must have been employed by the employer for at least twelve months and worked at least 1250 hours within the twelve months prior to the leave request. 18 The 14.
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FMLA Basics. Employees are considered to be eligible for FMLA leave if they have worked a minimum of 1,250 hours for a covered employer. Employees, to be deemed eligible for FMLA leave, must also work for at least one year at a site where at least 50 employees of the same employer are working within 75 miles.
http://www.fmla101.com/fmla-basics/fmla-eligibility.html
how many hours are in fmla
Employees are considered to be eligible for FMLA leave if they have worked a minimum of 1,250 hours for a covered employer.