The Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave

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P Managers’
Checklist
Does the FMLA Apply to My Company?
o My company had 50 or more employees on payroll during each of 20
workweeks in this or the last calendar year.
o I included all employees on leave in this count.
o I included all part-time employees on payroll during any workweek.
o I did not include employees hired or fired during any workweek in the
count for that workweek.
o I did not include employees working outside the U.S. or its territories in this
count.
o I counted all employees jointly employed by my company and joint
employer(s), including temp agency employees.
o I counted all employees of my company and any other company that is
integrated with it.
If Your Company Is Covered
Once you determine that your company is covered by the FMLA, you
must immediately provide information to employees about their rights and
obligations under the law. You’ll have to post a notice explaining the FMLA
and, if your company has written policies it distributes to employees (for
example, in an employee handbook), you’ll need to include information
about the FMLA in those policies.
Posting Requirements
Employees rely on you to provide information about the FMLA. That obligation
begins with the requirement to hang a poster explaining employees’
FMLA rights. The poster must be in a “conspicuous” place where it can be
readily seen by employees and job applicants, and in writing that is large
enough to read easily. Your company has to hang this poster even if it doesn’t
have any FMLA-eligible employees on site. The reason for this is that currently
ineligible employees may become eligible under the FMLA and will
need to know their rights.