The Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave

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Essential job functions
Americans with Disabilities Act, 68–69
inability to perform and reinstatement
rights, 231–232
intermittent or reduced-schedule leave
and, 109–110
Exempt employees
F
intermittent and reduced-schedule
leave, 113–114
tracking work hours of, 28–29
Family and Medical Leave Act. See
FMLA
Family members
determining, 70–72
form regarding leave, 361
parental certifications, 82
proving the relationship, 72–73
Federal laws affecting FMLA, 250–262,
276–277
50-employee test
calculating the size of your company,
17–20
checklist, 26
integrated employers and, 25
when to count employees, 39
within 75 miles, 37–38
Financial planning spreadsheets (XLS
files), 409–411
Firing an employee
during FMLA leave, 204–205
and reinstatement rights, 230
Fitness-for-duty certifications
contents of, 220
intermittent or reduced-schedule leave
and, 115
letter to employee requesting, 221
notice and deadlines for, 220–222
reinstatement and, 219–222
Fixed-period for leave year, 100–101
Flexible schedules are not FMLA leave,
116
Flexible spending accounts, payments
during FMLA leave, 192
FMLA
avoiding common mistakes about
overlapping laws, 273–275
checklist about overlapping laws,
276–278
company policies and, 12
compliance steps, 5–7
federal laws affecting, 250–262
overlapping laws, 10–11, 262–273
overview, 2, 4
requirements of, 4–5
state laws affecting, 262–273