FMLA Basics
This law ensures eligible employees can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
An employee must have worked for this many hours in the past 12 months to be eligible for FMLA.
What is 1,250 hours?
This type of leave is available when an employee needs to care for a family member with a serious health condition.
What is caregiving leave?
An employee can take FMLA leave to care for this relative who has a serious health condition.
Who is a spouse or child?
The employee must provide this amount of notice to their employer before taking FMLA leave.
What is 30 days?
This type of leave can be taken for a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to work.
What is medical leave?
This is the minimum amount of time an employee must have worked for the employer to be eligible for FMLA.
What is 12 months?
This type of FMLA leave is available for the birth or adoption of a child.
What is parental leave?
This family member can also be covered for FMLA leave due to a serious health condition.
Who is a parent?
If the leave is unforeseeable, the employee must notify the employer as soon as possible, typically within this time frame.
What is within one or two business days?
FMLA leave is unpaid, but employees may use this type of leave instead.
What is paid leave (vacation or sick leave)?
What the 12-month period for FMLA leave does not have to be.
What is consecutive?
This type of leave is provided for qualifying reasons related to a family member’s military service.
What is military leave?
FMLA leave is available to care for this type of family member in the military who has a serious injury.
Who is a servicemember?
FMLA guarantees employees can return to this after their leave.
What is the same or equivalent position?
This type of leave allows employees to take leave in separate blocks of time or by reducing their work schedule, and is available for medical and military family leave reasons.
What is intermittent?
The year that FMLA was enacted.
What is 1993?
This type of FMLA leave is available for employees who need time off due to their own serious health condition
What is medical leave?
An employer cannot do this to an employee for using FMLA leave.
What is retaliation or discrimination?
Berea College provides this type of paid for new parents to run concurrently with FMLA leave.
What is parental leave?
Employers must have at least this many employees within a 75 mile radius when providing FMLA to employees.
What is 50 employees?
This type of leave qualifies for FMLA related to a family member's service in the military related to deployment or a family member's service in the military related to serous injury of illness.
What is qualifying exigency leave? What is military caregiver leave?
The requirement for employers regarding group health insurance for employees on FMLA leave.
What is the requirement to continue group health insurance coverage on the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave