FMLA Checklist

Here’s a quick recap of the provisions of the FMLA:

• The Act requires employers to grant as much as 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period
• Eligible workers must have been employed for at least one year and worked 1,250 hours
• Circumstances triggering FMLA eligibility:

—The arrival of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care
—To care for a son, daughter, spouse or parent who has a serious health condition
—For an employee’s own serious health condition



• Circumstances exempting FMLA eligibility:

—Companies with fewer than 50 workers are exempt
—Employees in the highest-paid 10% may be denied leave if it would cause “substantial and grievous injury” to the business operations.

Personnel Journal, September 1994, Vol.73, No. 9, p. 38.