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OVERVIEW Don’t let your organization be caught off guard—make sure you and your organization are compliant with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) with this comprehensive course.

Participants will learn how to avoid the most common mistakes regarding administering FMLA leave, along with proven tips and guidelines for updating your company’s policies, practices and procedures.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Discover how to protect

your organization from employee lawsuits

• Learn what to do and say to stay compliant

• Identify the important aspects of the FMLA in a simplified, user-friendly format

• Discover answers to the most common FMLA questions

• Discuss strategies for making your workplace employee-friendly

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Debunk common misconceptions • Identify and avoid the top mistakes

made with the FMLA

• How the FMLA relates to state and federal discrimination laws

• Discover the special rules for specific employee groups

• Learn to accurately determine who is an eligible employee

Know your company’s rights • A “serious health condition” and

what the courts say about it

• Learn the difference between a rolling year, leave year and 12-month period under the FMLA

• Court decisions about the expanded rights for unmarried domestic partners

• Medical certifications your employees must provide to protect your rights as an employer

• Relationship-focused actions to take if an employee fails to satisfy certification requirements

The relationship between the FMLA, the ADA and workers’ compensation • Identify where the laws overlap and

which one takes precedence

• Why the EEOC definition of “reasonable accommodation” may conflict with the ADA-FMLA-workers’ comp triangle

• Bring an employee back to work and comply with the ADA, the FMLA and workers’ compensation without violating rights

Crossing your FMLA t’s and dotting your i’s • How to correctly figure paid and

unpaid leave

• How the FLSA’s pay docking policy affects your employees

• Keeping track of the accrual of employee benefits during leave time

• Health benefits and FMLA leave (COBRA, ERISA, etc.)

• When you can be held personally liable for FMLA violations

Maintain total FMLA compliance • What you need to do when forced to

terminate an employee on leave

• How to reinstate employees on leave and the exemption for highly compensated employees

• What exactly constitutes an “equivalent position” under the FMLA

• What you can legally do when your employee fails to return from leave

The FMLA and intermittent leave • FMLA leave types: Continuous,

reduced-schedule, intermittent

• Tracking and documenting intermittent leave under the FMLA

• Rolling 12 weeks¾not annual 12 weeks: Parameters under the FMLA

TRAINING DELIVERY • Pre-training: Tailoring and

customization of content

• Delivery of training using presentation, small group exercises, case studies, role-plays, games, etc.

• Post-training: Follow-up within 30 days to review information, provide coaching, set goals, etc. (optional)

FMLA Compliance Update