FMLA Compliance Guide

Compliance with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is indeed costly and confusing. Take control with the quick and easy advice in this practical resource, updated with the 10 key changes you need to know in the FMLA’s revised regulations. You’ll learn what steps to take in hundreds of real-world situations, plus discover the 8 issues you must cover – in writing – with an employee requesting FMLA leave, whether you can legally fire someone who is on FMLA leave and an amazingly simple strategy that prevents employees from taking 24 weeks of back-to-back leave. The FMLA Compliance Guide is guaranteed to give you concrete answers to your most perplexing FMLA questions.

The Compliance Guide will help you discover the seven issues you must cover – in writing – with an employee requesting FMLA leave, whether you can legally fire someone who is on FMLA leave, and an amazingly simple strategy that prevents employees from taking 24 weeks of back-to-back leave. The FMLA Compliance Guide is guaranteed to give you concrete answers to your most perplexing FMLA questions.

Here are just some of the things you’ll learn in the FMLA Compliance Guide:

* An amazingly simple strategy that prevents employees from taking 24 weeks of back-to-back leave

* How to kickstart the 12-week FMLA meter

* The one situation where you can legally deny reinstatement after FMLA leave

* 4 tests to determine if several closely held companies will trigger compliance with the 50-employee minimum

* When you can expect to receive money back from an employee on FMLA leave

* A simple formula for determining if a part-time employee is eligible under the law

* 7 issues you must cover – in writing – with an employee requesting leave

* The 3 most important steps you can take to make sure your company is in compliance with the FMLA

* Whether or not you can legally fire someone who’s away on FMLA leave

* How to prove you acted in “good faith” and avoid paying a lot in liquidated damages

The FMLA Compliance Guide is written by Matthew S. Effland, a shareholder with the prestigious nationwide law firm of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak and Stewart, P.C. He is often called in on complex areas of employment law, including FMLA compliance, and he is a regular speaker at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference. Mr. Effland also presents the popular FMLA webinar series for Business Management Daily.