vacation/FMLA

Lola815

We have an hourly employee who is on FMLA for a serious health condition. He is back to work, but not working full days. Anyway, he has next week off for vacation, which he has to take without pay (this was scheduled a few months ago). Does his vacation days count toward FMLA?

POPEYE

It depends on how your policy is written. We have FMLA run concurrently with any and all paid leave and have advised our employees such in our response letter.

watrsflo

I believe vacation days count (in the same manner weekends count) provided the employee's "serious health condition" continues as originally certified by his health-care provider.

Don D

With our policy, the absences count as FMLA, since all our leaves run concurrent with FMLA. Does the fact that the leave has already been applied for require the unbending fact that he MUST take the week off? That's a bit odd.

Lola815

He definitely doesn't have to take the week off. He said that he already bought airline tickets, etc. and wants to take it off without pay. I was actually really surprised that he still wanted to take his vacation since he ran out of time off to use.

Thanks to everyone for your responses!