FMLA Intermittent and Reduced Schedule Leave: How to Stop Abuse and Overcome Compliance Challenges

FMLA Intermittent and Reduced Schedule Leave Webinar Recording

FMLA intermittent leave ranks high among HR’s list of biggest complaince headaches.

Employers struggle to provide leave guaranteed under the law without putting undue burdens on managers and supervisors. It's bedeviled them, and HR professionals, since the law went into effect nearly two decades ago. In fact, dissatisfaction over the use (some would say abuse) of intermittent leave was identified as the “single most serious area of friction between employers and employees seeking to use FMLA leave,” according to a recent Department of Labor report.

Now that employers have had time to adjust to new FMLA regulations, it's time take the next step -- learn how to identify, correct, and prevent FMLA compliance problems so you can effectively manage all intermittent leave issues.

Participate in this interactive webinar, and you'll learn:

• Battle-tested strategies for combating intermittent and reduced schedule leave abuse
• How intermittent and reduced schedule leaves affect your organization
• When intermittent leave may be taken and how to establish “medical necessity”
• The practical (and legal) way to handle scheduling conflicts that arise from intermittent and reduced schedule leaves
• When intermittent and reduced schedule leaves may be taken for bonding-related reasons
• What constitutes a “minimum increment” of family and medical leave, and how to calculate leave usage for a given workweek when your employee has exercised his right to take intermittent or reduced schedule leave
• How the DOL’s NPRM would alter the calculation of leave increments
• Your duty to designate unscheduled time off under FMLA and the notice you’re entitled to get under the law for foreseeable leave requests
• How to correctly calculate overtime, and how to compensate exempt employees on intermittent or reduced schedule leave
• Medical certification challenges you must be ready to address, including a discussion on re-certifications and fitness-for-duty certifications

In just 90 minutes, you'll get the answers to your toughest intermittent leave questions so you can prevent FMLA abuse and stay in compliance. Register now for this informative event risk free.

This webinar was recorded on Wednesday, May 16, 2012

FMLA Intermittent and Reduced Schedule Leave: How to Stop Abuse and Overcome Compliance Challenges

About Your Speaker:

Attorney Drew L. Alexis is Of Counsel with Los Angeles-based Kinaga Law Firm. He represents management in a wide range of employment disputes before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, including in the areas of leave of absence management, discrimination, harassment and retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage & hour claims