Labor Department rolls out new Family and Medical Leave Act guide

The Department of Labor's wage-and-hour division has issued a new guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act.

The 76-page “The Employer's Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act” includes information on a series of topics. They include employers that are covered by the law as well as general notice requirements to take FMLA leave, employee obligations and eligibility, reasons that qualify for leave, the certification process, military family leave, maintenance of benefits during an employee's FMLA leave, and actions that a prohibited under the FMLA.

The guide was introduced at the San Francisco-based Disability Management Employer Coalition's FMLA/ADA Employer Compliance Conference in Pittsburgh on Monday by the Department of Labor FMLA Branch Chief Helen Applewhaite.