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EMPLOYMENT POLICIES
How the Amount of Leave is Calculated
The 12-month period in which an employee may take up to 12 work weeks of FMLA leave is a “rolling” 12-month period, measured backward from the first date an employee uses any FMLA leave for any of the reasons set forth above (except when FMLA leave is taken to care for a covered service member). The 12-month period in which an employee may take up to 26 workweeks of unpaid covered service member leave is measured forward from the first day the employee takes FMLA leave to care for a covered service member and ends 12 months after that date.
Use of Leave
When medically necessary, an employee does not need to use his/ her FMLA leave entitlement at one time, but may take FMLA leave intermittently or on a reduced schedule basis. Employees requesting intermittent or reduced leave schedule must make reasonable efforts to schedule leave for planned medical treatment so as not to unduly disrupt the Company’s operations. FMLA leave due to a “qualifying exigency” may also be taken on an intermittent or a reduced schedule basis.
If an employee needs intermittent or reduced-schedule leave that is foreseeable, or if the Company in its discretion permits intermittent or reduced schedule leave for the birth of a child or for the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, the Company may require the employee to transfer temporarily to an alternative position for which the employee is qualified and which better accommodates the intermittent or reduced leave schedule.
Definition of a Serious Health Condition
A “serious health condition” is an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves either an overnight stay in a medical care facility, or continuing treatment by a health care provider for a condition that either prevents the employee from performing the functions of the employee’s job, or prevents the qualified family member from participating in school or other daily activities.
Subject to certain conditions, the continuing treatment required may be met by a period of incapacity of more than three consecutive, full calendar days combined with at least two visits to a health care provider
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