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Intermittent FMLA Leave: Understand The Requirements And Prevent Abuse
Speaker :
Melissa Fleischer, Esq
About The Event
Understanding how to administer FMLA leave is hard enough without having to also figure out intermittent FMLA leave. This legalistic and complicated aspect of the FMLA will be broken down for your HR Department into easy to understand compliance tips and how-to’s to ensure that your organization is in compliance and knows how to ensure that your employees are not abusing intermittent FMLA leave. This webinar will provide the answers to your most challenging intermittent FMLA questions such as whether you are allowed to transfer an employee to another position that better accommodates intermittent FMLA leave, whether employees are always entitled to intermittent FMLA leave and how to prevent intermittent FMLA leave abuse.
Learning Objectives:
- Review intermittent leave requirements step-by-step.
- Discuss the definition of a “serious condition” and strategies for getting an employee to provide notification to the employers.
- Understand when you can request physician certifications and second opinions
- Learn about when the employer’s may contact a physician directly
- Understand what documentation you can ask the employee to provide before he or she takes intermittent FMLA leave.
- Ensure your FMLA policy includes language that best manages intermittent leave with the least workplace disruptions.
- Review the 4 methods for counting the 12-month period such as the calendar year and rolling 12-month methods for calculating intermittent leave
- Tips for which method of calculating the 12-month period works best for the employer.
- Learn about required notifications from employees before they can take intermittent FMLA leave
- Discuss how to reduce FMLA intermittent leave fraud and abuse
- AND MUCH MORE!
Who Should Attend:
HR, benefits, managers, supervisors, training, in-house counsel, financial officers, CEOs
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Melissa Fleischer, Esq
Melissa Fleischer, Esq., is a sought-after employment law attorney and HR advisor, having utilized her 20 years of law practice experience specializing in employment discrimination litigation to form HR Learning Center LLC, an HR consulting firm that specializes in providing workplace solutions to employers on a wide range of legal and human resource management issues. Ms. Fleischer provides preventative counseling and proactive training on a wide-range of employment law issues to help employers achieve legal compliance and reduce litigation costs, Ms. Fleischer is a management-side employment attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. Ms. Fleischer has successfully represented numerous clients in employment discrimination litigation as well as providing preventive counseling and training on workplace issues. Ms Fleischer was previously associated with Epstein Becker & Green in NYC.
Through HR Learning Center, Ms. Fleischer provides on-site training seminars and on-line training webinars and consulting on a wide range of workplace and human resource issues including sexual harassment, disabilities, diversity, discrimination, workplace violence, employee use of social media, job descriptions, employee handbooks, workplace investigations, FLSA misclassification and independent contractor status, information privacy and security, and HR records management. She also offers compliance training on the major employment laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, including exempt and non-exempt worker classifications and the National Labor Relations Act. She presents seminars, leads webinars and workshops, and is a frequent lecturer on these and other HR management and legal topics.
Ms. Fleischer served as a chapter editor for the Family and Medical Leave Act Treatise, published by the Bureau of National Affairs. She also served as an Editor for HRExpert, an on-line legal resource for attorneys and HR Professionals. Ms. Fleischer is an adjunct faculty member with the Professional Development Center at SUNY/Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Ms. Fleischer earned her J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and her B.A., cum laude, from New York University.