Ghostly Leaves
Length of time one must be employed to be eligible for FMLA
What is 6 Months or 625 hours?
Extended Illness bank maximum
What is 240 hours?
Paid Time Off (PTO) bank maximum
What is 320 hours?
Number of holidays included in your PTO accrual
What is 3 holidays?
Memorial Day, 4th of July, & Labor Day
Number of hours provided for Bereavement leave
What is up to 24 hours?
Number of job protected weeks available to an employee under FMLA
What is 12 weeks?
An employee delivers a baby, naturally, with no complications, and is planning to take the full 12 week maternity leave. How many weeks of EIB is the employee eligible to use during that leave?
What is 6 weeks?
Number of hours an employee can have in his/her bank upon returning from a leave of absence
What is 40 hours? (for Full-time)
What is 20 hours? (for Part-time)
Number of holidays paid by Syracuse Area Health
What is 3 holidays?
Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years
An employee wins time off at the Fall Festival. Which bank will this time apply to?
What is Awarded Time Off?
Accrual bank to be used while out on FMLA, caring for an ill parent or loved one
What is Paid Time Off (PTO)?
An employee has been employed for two months and needs to have surgery. What accrual bank are they eligible to use during their leave?
What is Paid Time Off and Unpaid Time Off?
(EIB is not eligible until 6 months of employment.)
Time increments PTO must be used in, when entering the time on their timecard
What is, there are no specific increments?
PTO can be entered down to the minute.
Non-exempt employees may take these days off using PTO or take them unpaid
What is Memorial Day, 4th of July, and/or Labor Day?
Type of paid leave that may be used during the 7 day Work Comp waiting period
What is EIB?
This can be withheld from an employee because they were on FMLA
What is, nothing can be withheld?
This can happen if FMLA is not administered and documented properly
What is, the organization can be fined if audited by The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division?
An employee calls in two days in a row and returns on the third day. The employee uses her PTO for both days. Their attendance record would show this.
What is one occurrence on their attendance record?
A 12-hour shift employee worked Sun-Tues (3 shifts) and 4th of July is on Friday of that same week. How many hours of PTO will the employee need to request for the 4th of July?
What is 0 hours?
If the employee has met their regularly scheduled hours for the week, no PTO is needed for the holiday.
The two banks that are not paid out when an employee terminates?
What is Extended Illness Bank and Awarded Time Off?
Name two serious health conditions for an employee, that are FMLA qualifying
What is hospitalization?
What is Cancer, heart attacks, strokes,etc.?
What is mental illness?
What is Chronic Conditions?
Your employee goes to the ER and is admitted into the hospital. He is off work for 6 business days. (He works 8 hour days.) How many hours of PTO will he use and how many hours of EIB will he use?
What is 0 PTO hours and 48 EIB hours?
Hospitalization qualifies you for immediate use of EIB. If PTO hours were initially used, we would return the PTO and use EIB hours.
An employee isn't feeling well and goes to see the doctor. He is diagnosed with Strep Throat, given an antibiotic, and told he may return to work if fever free for 24 hours. The employee is off for two days total and returns on the third day. Which accrual bank is the employee eligible to use and why?
What is PTO?
EIB hours are not accessible for one or two day illnesses/injuries, unless previously approved for qualifying intermittent FMLA leave.
A 12-hour shift employee is off on Christmas Day. How many hours of Holiday Pay will that employee receive?
What is 8 hours? The employee may supplement with 4 hours of PTO if they choose. This is not a requirement.
A blizzard hits Syracuse, all school are closed and roads are blown shut. Syracuse Area Health closes all clinics and goes to Essential Staffing. How are non-exempt staff paid during Essential Staffing?
What is use of PTO or Unpaid time?