FMLA

[Guest guest]

Family Leave Medical Act applies to ANYONE that has an occupation whose employer

has twenty(20) or more employees. This act allows the person to take time off of

work due to taking care of an immediate family member.(e.g. father, mother,

husband, wife, son or daughter. Depending on the employer: grandmother or/and

grandfather)The duration of time is 12 weeks. If you and your spouse are

employed, the time can be split for both of you. (e.g. 4 weeks for the husband

and 8 weeks for the wife who has the baby.) To have the benefits of the FLMA,

I think you have to be employed by your employer for 6 months.

Please check with your Human Resource Representative.

Best wishes,

Mike

mdavis@...

FMLA

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> Hey, I have a ? Does anyone know if dwarfism falls

> under one of the conditions for FMLA (Family Medical

> Leave Act).

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> Thanks,

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> Matt

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[Guest guest]

The FMLA allows a person the same amount of time for their own

medical situations as well as family members. It also requires the

employer to pay for the individual's benefits for 3 months and hold

their job for the same amount of time.

Rose

> Family Leave Medical Act applies to ANYONE that has an occupation

whose employer has twenty(20) or more employees. This act allows the

person to take time off of work due to taking care of an immediate

family member.(e.g. father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter.

Depending on the employer: grandmother or/and grandfather)The

duration of time is 12 weeks. If you and your spouse are employed,

the time can be split for both of you. (e.g. 4 weeks for the husband

and 8 weeks for the wife who has the baby.) To have the benefits of

the FLMA,

> I think you have to be employed by your employer for 6 months.

> Please check with your Human Resource Representative.

> Best wishes,

>

> Mike

[Guest guest]

Caution: Depending on how the employer interprets the act, they will first

use up all of your advanced vacation first and/or floating holidays then

your sick pay.

For example: Lets say your wife is going to have a baby and you would

like time off to be at home to take care of your wife and new born. Lets say

you wanted to take only 2 months off for the time. Well, your employer can

decide how they are going to pay you. Lets also say you only get 2 weeks of

vacation a year. First they use up the 2 weeks you have leftover then, if

you have any sick pay they will then use that. If your sick pay and vacation

run out they will give the rest of the time off as NO PAY.

so.. 2 weeks vacation then how many sick days you have .. lets say for

example 20 days of sick pay, the rest of the time of 14 days would be NO

pay although you could still legally have it off.

Mike

Re: FMLA

> The FMLA allows a person the same amount of time for their own

> medical situations as well as family members. It also requires the

> employer to pay for the individual's benefits for 3 months and hold

> their job for the same amount of time.

>

> Rose

[Guest guest]

Hey Deanna---

You sparked my interest...I saw that you wrote that you've " used a

lot of FMLA. " I'm curious to know how SBC works it.

Do they require you to apply your sick time to FMLA after a certain

number of days?

I've been off a few days at a time because of my L5/S1 herniation and

treatments and I've been told---after I've already returned to work---

to apply some of my time off to FMLA.

I work for a local government and no one else on staff can do my job,

so I'm not too worried about being replaced---yet.

I ask this because one of my colleagues (who has taken a few days off

at a time to have her knee scoped) and I were forced to use FMLA time

after the fact---even though we both have several hours of sick time

available to use. We were both told to adjust our personnel records--

-after we had returned to work---to apply our time off to FMLA.

I guess---after all of this rambling---I want to know at what point

can an employer MAKE you use FMLA time?????? And, does it matter if

you have sick time to use????? How much FMLA time does one get? Is

this regulated by federal law? I guess I could check their website,

but I think our HR chick is making it up as she goes along.....

If anyone knows, please share.....Thanks!!

Margie

[Guest guest]

No...FMLA is FMLA...if youve worked 1250 hrs in the past 12 mos you get a total

of 12 weeks ..( at least with SBC)....we dont use our " sick time " because this

is government " Clinton' approved Family Medical Leave A(?) ... I forgot the

last word..but anyways...legally your job cant make you use your benefit

time...FMLA is for medical time without pay ,off...check it out on the web

...well...yeah..if ya have sick leave they can technically make you use it. SBC

is one of the really cool big companies that doesnt try to make us waste our

paid or excussed non paid time off... If you have time left you DONT have to do

FMLA...thats a way for your company to screw you and not pay you....

girlfriend...go to www.askjeeves.com and put FMLA......or look at any search

site...yalls HR must think yall are idiots....

deana

FMLA

Hey Deanna---

You sparked my interest...I saw that you wrote that you've " used a

lot of FMLA. " I'm curious to know how SBC works it.

Do they require you to apply your sick time to FMLA after a certain

number of days?

I've been off a few days at a time because of my L5/S1 herniation and

treatments and I've been told---after I've already returned to work---

to apply some of my time off to FMLA.

I work for a local government and no one else on staff can do my job,

so I'm not too worried about being replaced---yet.

I ask this because one of my colleagues (who has taken a few days off

at a time to have her knee scoped) and I were forced to use FMLA time

after the fact---even though we both have several hours of sick time

available to use. We were both told to adjust our personnel records--

-after we had returned to work---to apply our time off to FMLA.

I guess---after all of this rambling---I want to know at what point

can an employer MAKE you use FMLA time?????? And, does it matter if

you have sick time to use????? How much FMLA time does one get? Is

this regulated by federal law? I guess I could check their website,

but I think our HR chick is making it up as she goes along.....

If anyone knows, please share.....Thanks!!

Margie

[Guest guest]

margie..after rereading again what you asked..why would you WANT to use a paid

" vacation " day to be sick when you can go unpaid that day , and when youre back

up to par take that paid day and enjoy it ? Do yall not get the oppertunity to

use yalls " sick days " as paid whatever days ?...just wondering..

deana

From: mailto:margie_ok <Spchtch8@...

spinaldisorderssupport

Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:04 PM

Subject: FMLA

Hey Deanna---

You sparked my interest...I saw that you wrote that you've " used a

lot of FMLA. " I'm curious to know how SBC works it.

Do they require you to apply your sick time to FMLA after a certain

number of days?

I've been off a few days at a time because of my L5/S1 herniation and

treatments and I've been told---after I've already returned to work---

to apply some of my time off to FMLA.

I work for a local government and no one else on staff can do my job,

so I'm not too worried about being replaced---yet.

I ask this because one of my colleagues (who has taken a few days off

at a time to have her knee scoped) and I were forced to use FMLA time

after the fact---even though we both have several hours of sick time

available to use. We were both told to adjust our personnel records--

-after we had returned to work---to apply our time off to FMLA.

I guess---after all of this rambling---I want to know at what point

can an employer MAKE you use FMLA time?????? And, does it matter if

you have sick time to use????? How much FMLA time does one get? Is

this regulated by federal law? I guess I could check their website,

but I think our HR chick is making it up as she goes along.....

If anyone knows, please share.....Thanks!!

Margie

[Guest guest]

Hi Deana,

Thanks for answering. I will check the website; however, our HR

manager made both my colleague and I designate our SICK DAYS as FMLA

time, for which we were paid. Can you be paid for FMLA time????? I

was on my last paycheck.

I have worked 1250 hours over the last year---have been with this job

for sixteen years now.

My colleague is fighting the use of FMLA because she's worried that

she might need to use the twelve weeks later in the year, should a

family emergency or something else come up. She was upset that they

made her designate her sick time---which she had over 200 hours

accumulated---for her knee surgery.

She's the one who " pulled me into it, " hence my not referring to her

as " my friend. " When told to use FMLA time for her knee surgery, she

immediately asked, " What about Margie? " when I was already back at

work. I was then told if I used more than three consecutive days for

the same " injury, " that I had to designate my sick time as FMLA time

and note it as such on my time record. Again, I was paid for the

time and the sick days were subtracted from the total I get each

year. And, I was already back at work again when they told me to

designate any time period---more than three consecutive days---as

FMLA.

When our HR manager told me to designate some of my time as FMLA---

after the fact---my only concern was that I would not be paid. I do

not want any unpaid time off---I have lots of vacation, sick and

personal time that I can use to be paid when I'm off.

I'm not challenging our HR office because it looks like I will be

facing surgery and I need the HR manager to work with me for the time

that I will be off, which I assume will be designated as short term

disability---at 75% of my salary---which I was on for my maternity

leave three years ago.

It's confusing. I was just curious to see how SBC worked it.

I " gave " them five days to designate as FMLA, when in fact, I've been

off more than that since the first of the year for my series of

epidurals and the nerve block, along with the time off when they

released spinal fluid and I had to go back in for a blood patch.....

It's a pain in the butt---literally!!

Margie

[Guest guest]

> I have a question as a dwarf, do we qualify for fmla?

Actually, my understanding is that qualification is based on service time,

not disability. Or am I misunderstanding the question?