Family Medical Leave Act FMLA
- An introduction to FMLA: For example, why was it adopted, and why is it important to workers?
- Responsibilities: For example, what responsibilities does a worker have regarding FMLA? What responsibilities does the employer have?
- Administration: For example, how is FMLA administered by an employer? What are the challenges when an employee takes an “intermittent” leave?
- Consequences: What happens if an employee is on leave past the FMLA protection? What happens if companies don’t apply the law correctly?
- Conclusion: What does your team think about FMLA — is it a good law? Is it doing what it was intended to do? Why or why not?
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Family Medical Leave Act FMLA
Introduction
FMLA, also referred to as the Family and Medical Leave Act is a labor law in the United States that was passed in 1993 (Aitchison, 2013). The law requires covered employers to provide all their employees with unpaid leaves for family and medical reasons that may arise in the course of their employment duty at the organization. Some of these reasons include adoption, childbirth, foster care, and personal illnesses. The law was adopted to improve the lives of the employees who have also other roles and duties at home apart from the duties and roles that they play within an organization.
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