Imagine receiving an FMLA medical certification from your employee, Dan, that has his handwriting all over it except for the physician’s signature. Your fraud radar is screaming, so you want to confirm directly with his doctor whether this document is legit.
But before you can call his doctor to authenticate the document, imagine further that
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Russ, a bus driver, takes medical leave from work on 24 different occasions without following the employer’s call-in procedure, and then preemptively provides medical certification from a local chiropractor who is known to churn out FMLA medical certifications like a grandparent who generously dishes out candy to
Every HR pro knows this little workplace miracle.
Just as your office or plant is winding down for Memorial Day—or some other prime-time long weekend—boom: your employee’s chronic condition suddenly flares up like a Roman candle.
What timing.
A total and complete coincidence, right?
Enter Andrew, who worked as a conductor for CSX
Meet Ray.
Ray is to the FMLA as Patrick Mahomes is to football. Ray is an FMLA pro, having taken FMLA leave a total of 158 times over three years. No joke. F-M-L-A simply rolled off Ray’s tongue, enabling him to take leave on countless occasions.
As the story goes, Ray started his latest FMLA
This morning, the day after the Super Bowl, 16.1 million of your employees will call in “sick.”
Over 6 million of these employees will face discipline for their call-in, according to UKG, which provides workforce management and human resource management services.
I didn’t need this survey to remind me that employers face an
Christmas in July might just exist after all!
Give yourself and your loved ones the gift of three riveting — and, more importantly, free — webinars throughout the month of July that will tackle all things FMLA, ADA and paid family and medical leave.
You want some practical strategy for fighting FMLA misuse? I’ve got
If you find yourself mired in FMLA abuse, take comfort in this real-life husband and wife leave escapade.
Location: City of Taipei, Taiwan, which maintains a law in which eight days of paid leave is provided to newlyweds. How nice.
Johnny worked for a bank in Taiwan, and was set to wed his lovely
When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 (12:00 – 1:15 p.m. central time)
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The Family and Medical Leave Act is generally considered to be an employee-friendly law, and employers have often felt helpless to do anything but approve leave requests under FMLA and similar laws.
But we shouldn’t feel helpless!
In this
Can an employer discipline an employee for exceeding the frequency of expected absences indicated on an FMLA medical certification?
I’m actually going to answer this question tomorrow during a free webinar sponsored by the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC), where we will cover key FMLA and ADA cases from 2019. I hope you can attend.
It’s a Friday in the middle of summer. So, approximately half of your workforce called off today due to an FMLA-related absence. [Well, not really, but I’m not that far off, amirite?]
Take heart. At least you’re not the City of Chicago.
As reported this week by the City’s Inspector General, three