intermittent FMLA and health benefits

Mainiac

If a 40 hour employee has hours reduced to 30 hours due to a serious health condition (recommended by her physician) - is the full health premium still paid for the 12 weeks or can the premium be paid 75% by employer and 25% by employee (which is the policy for part-time employees)?

POPEYE

>If a 40 hour employee has hours reduced to 30
>hours due to a serious health condition
>(recommended by her physician) - is the full
>health premium still paid for the 12 weeks or
>can the premium be paid 75% by employer and 25%
>by employee (which is the policy for part-time
>employees)?

First of all, on intermittent leave you track by the hour, not the week. If your EE's condition is long term, you could be looking at 48 weeks (480 hrs. / 10 hrs. per week). Then you may not deny this EE any benefit that is provided to your other EEs because they are on FML. So if I am reading your post correctly, if the company is paying 100% of insurance prior to the EE being certified, then you must continue.

Mainiac

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 11-12-03 AT 04:15PM (CST)[/font][br][br]What if a 40 hour employee (who has been out on FML for a week) does not supply any further information from her physician, but wants to reduce her hours to 3 hours once a week to go to a counseling session. Can we require that she provide documentation and go on intermittent FML?

marc

Agree with Popeye.