Basics
Signed into law in 1990, this acronym stands for Americans with Disabilities Act
What is the ADA?
What is a reasonable accommodation?
FMLA can be taken for the birth of a child, also known as this type of "bonding."
What is baby bonding?
An employee must have worked at least this many hours in the 12 months prior to leave
What is 1,250 hours?
While on FMLA, this is the status of the employee's job when they return.
What is protected?
This is what the acronym FMLA stands for
What is Family and Medical Leave Act?
An employer does not have to provide an accommodation if it causes this type of significant difficulty or expense.
What is undue hardship?
FMLA can be used for this, defined as an illness or injury requiring inpatient care or continuing treatment.
What is a Serious Health Condition?
This process involves discussing needs between employer and employee.
What is the interactive process?
This is the maximum number of weeks available to care for a covered service member (Military Caregiver Leave).
The ADA defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of these
What are major life activities?
An employee must meet these for a job, with or without reasonable accommodation, to be protected by the ADA.
What are essential functions (or qualifications)?
True or False: You can take FMLA to care for a parent-in-law.
What is False? (Only spouses, parents, and children)
The number of days in advance an employee should request foreseeable FMLA leave.
What is 30 days?
Employers cannot ask this type of question before a job offer.
What are disability-related questions?
True or False: FMLA leave is generally paid leave
What is False?
(It is unpaid, though paid leave may be substituted)
Employers are prohibited from asking about a disability before making this.
What is a conditional job offer?
This type of leave allows employees to take FMLA in separate blocks of time for a single illness.
What is intermittent leave?
True or False: The 12 months of employment must be consecutive to be eligible.
This action against someone for asserting ADA rights or taking FMLA is prohibited.
What is retaliation?
The total number of work weeks an eligible employee is entitled to in a 12-month period for basic FMLA.
Businesses are allowed to ask if a service animal is required because of a disability, and to ask this.
What task is the animal trained to perform?
FMLA requires the employer to maintain this benefit for the employee while on leave.
What is group health insurance?
True or False: An employee can be fired for legitimate reasons, such as a layoff, while on FMLA.
What is True?