In order to be eligible to take leave under the FMLA, an airline flight crew employee must work for a covered employer; be employed at a worksite where the employer has 50 or more employees within 75 miles; have worked for the employer for 12 months; and meet the hours of service requirement.
Last week, 200 white trucks said to be carrying humanitarian aid headed to eastern Ukraine from Russia. Russia called it an aid convoy but Ukraine indicated that it would allow the trucks in only if they were accompanied by teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Russian oil motives in Ukraine By STEVE AUSTIN for OIL-PRICE.NET, 2014/04/07. The recent Russian takeover of Crimea has grabbed the world's attention. The Russian government has long held a secret desire to recover the peripheral territories that were split away from the Soviet Union at the collapse of Communism.