The Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave

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Preliminary designation of FMAL leave,
124–125
See also Designation of FMLA leave
Premium payments during FMLA leave,
194–196, 349, 353
Prenatal care, as serious health condition,
63
Primary employers, 22–24
PTO as FMLA leave, 129
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Raises earned during leave, 223–224
README file, 402
Reasonable accommodations
ADA/FMLA overlap, 254–257
leave as, 256
for returning employees, 203
Record keeping requirements
avoiding common mistakes, 289
checklist, 290, 400
company workforce records, 282
individual employee records, 283–285
intermittent or reduced-schedule leave,
115
medical records, 252, 285–287
need for good records, 281–282
review by the DOL, 287–288
Reduced-schedule leave. See Intermittent
or reduced-schedule leave
Reimbursement for benefits
strategies for recovering, 240
what can be recovered, 239–240
when you can recover, 238–239
Reinstatement
ADA and, 255–256
avoiding common mistakes, 241
benefits restored, 226–228
bonuses earned during leave, 224–225
checklist, 242–245, 396–398
in company FLMA policy, 349–350
deadlines for, 216–218
to equivalent position, 213–216
fitness-for-duty certification, 219–222
ineligibility for, 228–237
pay restoration, 223
raises earned during leave, 223–224
right of, 213–218
workers’ comp laws, 272
Rescheduling employee’s leave, 182–183
Restructuring and reinstatement rights,
229
Retirement benefits, restoring after
reinstatement, 227
Retroactive designation of FMLA leave,
126–127
Rhode Island, summary of leave laws,
329–330
“Rolling” leave year, 102
RTF (word processing files), 404–406