FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT

Employer notice: Employers  are required to notify employees of the amount of FMLA leave being  charged and the employee’s paid leave status. Also, employers are  required to notify employees if their FMLA certifications are incomplete  or insufficient and give them the opportunity to remedy any deficiency.

Employee notice. Employees must follow the employer’s usual and customary call-in  procedures for reporting an absence, except under unusual circumstances.  Also, the new regulations require employees who request leave for an   approved FMLA case to specifically reference their FMLA case at the  time  of their request.

Clarifying “serious medical condition.” The new rules keep the six definitions of a serious medical condition,  but require health care providers to include some of the details about  the illness, project the number of days employees will be out of work  and  the number of necessary health care provider visits.