Labor & Employment Law

DOL Issues Temporary Mandatory FMLA Poster Addressing Military Family Leave Amendments

By Harvey Randall, Esq.

DOL Issues Temporary Mandatory FMLA Poster Addressing Military Family Leave Amendments
Source: The FMLA Blog - http://federalfmla.typepad.com/fmla_blog/

Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved by Carl C. Bosland, Esq. Reproduced with permission. Mr. Bosland is the author of A Federal Sector Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act & Related Litigation.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently released a temporary FMLA poster addressing the recently enacted changes affecting leave for military families. It is meant as a temporary mandatory insert to be posted along side your current DOL FMLA poster. In all likelihood, the DOL will not issue a final version of a combined FMLA poster at least until it publishes regulations to implement the military family leave amendments.

The one-page poster provides general information regarding the availability of (1) up to 26 weeks of FMLA leave to care for a spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin servicemenber who suffered a serious illness or injury in military combat; and (2) up to 12 weeks of FMLA leave due to a "qualifying exigency" related to active military duty in support of a contingency operation (e.g., Afghanistan, Iraq).

To obtain a copy of the new temporary FMLA poster, follow the attached link. http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/NDAAAmndmnts.pdf

Comment: DOL has not issued regulations implementing the newly added military family leave provisions of the FMLA. The regulations should be out in the next months.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).